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Historical Fiction - Colonial Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Colonial genre:
Away Goes Sally (1934)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)
This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
Botany Bay (1941)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Down Ryton Water (1941)
An account of the Pilgrims’ voyage to America, from the point of view of a young boy.
Author(s):
E. R. Gaggin
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The White Horse (1942)
Voyaging on the Fair American to Genoa, Sally, Andrew and Captain Patterson are captured by Moroccan pirates.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Bells of Leyden Sing (1944)
The story of the last year the Pilgrims spent in Holland before setting out for the Massachusetts Colony.
Author(s):
Catherine Cate Coblentz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Commodore Hornblower (1945)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
River of the Wolves (1948)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Mr. Wicker’s Window (1952)
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Children’s Hour Volume 12 (1953)
A collection of historical fiction.
Read online at archive.org.
Mr. Revere and I (1953)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Mr. Revere and I (1953)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Sign of the Seven Seas (1954)
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Thanksgiving Story (1954)
A retelling of the story of the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Captain Kidd’s Cat (1956)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Song of the Wheels (1956)
Set in the Hudson River valley in the early eighteenth century, this is the story of a young man who fights to release his father from debtor's prison.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Last of the Mohicans (1957)
In this second volume in the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook as they rescue two young British women.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty