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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
The Country Book (1924)
Two children spend time in the country.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Down the Big River (1924)
Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Jibby Jones and the Alligator: The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississippi Valley (1924)
Further adventures of Jibby Jones and his friends on the Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Arthur G. Dorr
Johnny Bear and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted (1924)
Includes Johnny Bear, Tito, and Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Midlander (1924)
The conclusion of a trilogy about the industrialization of a Midwestern city. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Thelma C. Grosvenor
The Peterkin Papers (1924)
A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Harold M. Brett
The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)
A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margery Clark
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Sard Harker (1924)
Sard Harker sets out to do a good deed for two fellow Englishmen and soon finds himself kidnapped and forced to wander about Santa Barbara.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Sard Harker (1924)
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A School History of the United States (1924)
A history of the United States for school children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Martha Tucker Stephenson
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
N. C. Wyeth
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The Deerslayer (1925)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The End of the Rainbow (1925)
This illustration was probably prepared for a periodical, but the source is unknown.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Lives of Game Animals: Four Volumes (1925)
A four-volume work describing the lives of North American animals that are of interest to sportsmen.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Lobo and Other Stories (1925)
Contains Lobo, Silverspot, Redruff and Bingo.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Made-To-Order Stories (1925)
A dozen stories which originally appeared in St. Nicholas magazine.
Author(s):
Dorothy Canfield
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Pathway to Reading Primer (1925)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Bessie Blackstone Coleman
James Fleming Hosic
Willis Lemon Uhl
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Paul Bunyan (1925)
Author(s):
James Stevens
Illustrator(s):
Allen Lewis
The Plucky Allens (1925)
Four orphans are raised by their aunt in the good old fashioned way.
Author(s):
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Quest (1925)
A young man spends much of his time thinking about philosophical and religious questions. Dust jacket by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Katharine Newlin Burt
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren