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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Nurse Matilda Goes to Town (1967)
Author(s):
Christianna Brand
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Ready-Made Family (1967)
When nineteen year old Karen Marlow announces she is giving up Oxford to marry a recently widowed man with three children, her family is not amused.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Charles Mozley
The Stuffed Dog (1967)
Two girls discover a talking doll in the attic.
Author(s):
John Symonds
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Swing in the Summerhouse (1967)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Three Bears (1967)
A new retelling of this favorite story.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Robert Southey
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Deer Valley Girl (1968)
Two Vermont families are reconciled after a three-generation feud.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
In Spite of All Terror (1968)
Liz Hawtin, orphaned at twelve, is evacuated to the country during the London Blitz and participates in the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk.
Author(s):
Hester Burton
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
Jessica On Her Own (1968)
An orphaned cousin and an out-of-work Uncle add to Jessica's problems with her schoolmates.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Alison Prince
Maria Poppina ab A ad Z (1968)
Mary Poppins from A to Z in a Latin translation.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Pretty, Pretty Peggy Moffitt (1968)
Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffit spends so much time looking at herself that she is constantly falling down, bumping into things and injuring herself. Is this any way to become a movie star?
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Push Kitty (1968)
Kitty White does not seem to be enjoying his role as a baby.
Author(s):
Jan Wahl
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Seven Days (1968)
There are seven Day children, each born on a different day of the week:
"Monday’s child is fair of face …"
This second edition has new illustrations.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Joan Schwartzberg
Animal Friends All Year Long (1969)
Two dozen stories and poems about the animals of River Bend.
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Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Barbie (1969)
When Laurel and Simon’s cousin Barbie arrives, they are not prepared for a musical virtuoso.
Author(s):
Kitty Barne
Illustrator(s):
Colleen Browning
The Cat From Nowhere (1969)
When Negus, a sleek black cat settles at a small Swiss hotel he makes friends with a Story, a ten year old American girl.
Author(s):
Monica Stirling
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Debbie and Her Family (1969)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Debbie Herself (1969)
Tells about Debbie’s daily activities in verse.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Do You Remember What Happened (1969)
Short poetical essays on the experience of childhood.
Author(s):
Jean Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Emily’s Autumn (1969)
Emily tells her corn husk doll about her summer on grandmother’s farm.
Author(s):
Janice May Udry
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Emily’s Moo (1969)
Emily knows that cows say moo, but she has never learned how.
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Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely