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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Book of Dragons (1961)
A collection of eight stories about dragons.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. Granville Fell
H. R. Millar
The Borrowers Aloft (1961)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Diana Stanley
The Borrowers Aloft (1961)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Down in the Cellar (1961)
A band of children, a cellar, a fugitive and a hidden kingdom in a hill.
Author(s):
Nicholas Stuart Gray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Elizabeth (1961)
This is the story of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Rudolf Michael Sachs
February’s Road (1961)
A new road is planned to run through the Callendar farm, but February is determined to stop it.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
A Good Place to Hide (1961)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
I’m Hiding (1961)
A little girl lists all the ways she can hide.
Author(s):
Myra Cohn Livingston
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Journey to England (1961)
Brosus and Margita set out from Sweden to search for their mother who has gone to work in England. Erik Blegvad did the dust jacket only.
Author(s):
Edith Unnerstad
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Ulla Sundin-Wickman
Katie and the Sad Noise (1961)
Katie hears a sad noise in the night, three days running. On the third day, she leads her father and the townsfolk in tracking it down.
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ellie Simmons
Madeline in London (1961)
Madeline and the orphelines visit Pepito in London and return with a new pet.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ervine Metzl
Mrs. Coverlet’s Magicians (1961)
The Toad is not at all pleased when Miss Eva Penalty takes over for Mrs. Coverlet, and he intends to do something about it.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
New Horizons (1961)
Janey has the opportunity to attend high school on the mainland.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Peter’s Room (1961)
Over the Christmas holidays the younger Marlows and Patrick Merrick enter the land of Gondal and find more than they expected.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Picco the Sad Italian Pony (1961)
Alfredo and Gina do everything they can think of to cheer up the little pony, but nothing works, until Alfredo has a brilliant idea.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Purple Hills (1961)
A family of migrant farm workers takes up a homestead in New Mexico, shortly after it achieves statehood, and discovers why the previous owners left.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Return to Gone-Away (1961)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
To Tame a Sister (1961)
Margaret goes to stay with her cousins, but her two mischievous brothers come as well and threaten to spoil everything.
Author(s):
Gillian Avery
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder