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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Long Ago (1927)
Life in a small town in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on the author’s own childhood.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Small Bachelor (1927)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
G. Hartmann
The Small Bachelor (1927)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Marston
Small Fry and the Winged Horse (1927)
Small Fry tells wonder stories to the children of his village.
Author(s):
Ruth Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Story of a Bad Boy (1927)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Edwin John Prittie
To and Again (1927)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Adolfo Best-Maugard
Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1928)
Here we have Lincoln’s babyhood and boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek, his games and chores.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt (1928)
A biography of the rough rider president.
Author(s):
Edwin Emerson
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Bright Avenues (1928)
Nineteen year old Christine comes to San Francisco to seek her fortune during the roaring 20’s.
Author(s):
Josephine Bentham
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Caravans to Santa Fe (1928)
When Steven undertakes to deliver a letter from New Orleans to Santa Fe, he hopes for adventure - and find it.
Author(s):
Alida Sims Malkus
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Carter’s Legacy (1928)
A short story extolling the virtues of thrift and the history of a bank. Published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Citizens Trust Company of Utica, New York.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
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Rudolph Tandler
The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire (1928)
Author(s):
William Hickling Prescott
Minnie Wright
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Daughter of the Hawk (1928)
Dawkins has escaped from a convict labor camp on an island in the south seas and returns home to find more than he bargained for.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Davy and the Goblin or What Followed Reading “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1928)
The Goblin takes Davy on a believing voyage.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
H. I. Bacharach
E. B. Bensell
Dickey Byrd (1928)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Boyd
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Fatima: The Difference (1928)
This advertisement for a major national company appeared in the April 1928 issue of The Golden Book Magazine, volume VII, Number 40, page 37 of the advertisements.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Fatima: This Younger Crowd (1928)
This advertisement for a national account appeared in The Golden Book Magazine in February 1928 volume VII number 38, page 54 of the advertising section.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Irene of Tundra Towers (1928)
A story of Alaska, with a young woman heroine.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Burrows
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1928)
A comic history of New York under the Dutch.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty