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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Petticoat Court (1930)
A young woman from New Orleans travels to France during the Civil War.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Potato Face (1930)
A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
None
Red Horse Hill (1930)
Bud Martin decides to take his bulldog and try New Hampshire. He finds a warm welcome with Uncle John and Aunt Sarah.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Lee Townsend
Salute to Adventurers (1930)
Adventures of a Scotch lad in Virginia in the early days of colonization.
The cover image shown above is from the 1915 edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Snow Image (1930)
Peony and Violet build a snow girl who comes to life and plays with them.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Spinach Boy (1930)
What will become of Spinach Boy when the spinach crop fails?
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Timothy and the Blue Cart (1930)
Three children spend the summer on a farm in New Hampshire and make friends with the vegetable man and the horse that pulls his blue cart.
Author(s):
Elinor Whitney
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Twilight of Magic (1930)
The twins, Giles and Anne, with the assistance of Agnes the Applewoman, come to the aid of the King.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Washington Picture Book (1930)
A travel book about Washington, District of Columbia.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Angus and the Cat (1931)
Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus’s food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along?
Author(s):
Marjorie Flack
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
Away to Sea (1931)
Jim Slater ran away from his father’s farmhouse to become a sailor. Later, he discovered he was aboard a slave ship.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Clinton Balmer
The Beckoning Road: Book VII (1931)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
William Dodge Lewis
Elizabeth J. Marshall
Sydney Vanferson Rowland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Benny and His Penny (1931)
Benny has too many choices for his penny so he just keeps it.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Donkey of God (1931)
Author(s):
Louis Untermeyer
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Earthworms in Europe: Alexander Botts Makes the Old World Tractor-Conscious (1931)
In search of new worlds to conquer, Alexander Botts, natural born salesman, sails for Europe with eight Earthworm tractors in the hold.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Tony Sarg
The Farmer in the Dell (1931)
A look at life on the farm in the olden days.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Golden Tales of New England (1931)
A collection of short stories by New England authors.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Dorothy Canfield
Edward Everett Hale
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
A Head for Happy (1931)
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The House That Grew Smaller (1931)
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson