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Books in the American genre:

Drums of Monmouth (1935)

This is a biography of Philip Freneau, known as the poet of the revolution. He was a friend of Madison and Jefferson and edited an anti-federalist newspaper.

Author(s): Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

The Enchanted Castle (1935)

Bebe and Jean go on a believing journey to Colleen Moore’s Doll House.

Author(s): Colleen Moore
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

Ernestine Takes Over (1935)

A book for adults by the author of Freddy the Pig.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Herbert F. Roese

Everyday Fun (1935)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Julia Letheld Hahn
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

Golden Tales of the Far West (1935)

A collection of short stories by western writers or on western themes.

Honk the Moose (1935)

One winter up on Minnesota’s Iron Range, two boys adopt a moose who decides to stay the winter in the livery barn. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936

Johnny Bear, Lobo and Other Stories (1935)

Includes Johnny Bear, Lobo, Raggylug, Chink, The Mother Teal and the Overland Rout and Wully.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

Little House on the Prairie (1935)

In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

Monty Bodkin bought the Mickey Mouse doll with the removable head for his fiancee Gertrude Butterwick, but his brother’s boss, head of Superba-Llewellyn Motion Pictures has a more urgent need for it. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Salomon and Joseph Abbey

Marauders of the Sea (1935)

This is an anthology of pirate stories, real and fiction.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Peter Hurd

Some We Loved (1935)

A novel of manners set in depression-era Milwaukee.

Author(s): Edward Harris Heth
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Three Little Warrens (1935)

A gentle domestic comedy.

Author(s): Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

Wild Animals and their Little Ones (1935)

Pictures of animals and their young. A shortened version of the French Pere Castor edition.

Author(s): Rose Celli
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Wild Animals at Home (1935)

A collection of pictures of animal mothers and their young. This edition is somewhat abbreviated compared with the French original Pere Castor publication.

Author(s): Marguerite Reynier
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

All Things New (1936)

A story of sixteen year old Masha Oblanoff and her family of Russian immigrants making their way in New York.

Author(s): Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Betsy Ross (1936)

Helen Bates tells the story of how General George Washington commissioned Betsy Ross to sew the first American flag.

Author(s): Helen Dixon Bates
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Billy Butter: The Tale of a Little Brown Goat (1936)

The little goat is rescued from the butcher’s shop and becomes a familiar pet on the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Book of Cowboys (1936)

Peter and Barbara Ann spend the summer on their uncle’s ranch and learn about cowboys firsthand. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Drums Along the Mohawk (1936)

Gil Martin and his wife clear a place for their home in the Mohawk River Valley and, along with others, try to ignore the Indian raids and British invasions of the world outside. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s): Henry Bitz

Francis Scott Key (1936)

This brief biography tells of the life of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangled Banner.

Author(s): Helen Dixon Bates
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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