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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
A-Going to the Westward (1937)
A story of pioneers settling in Ohio in the 1810’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1937)
Norman Rockwell did the illustrations for this edition of the classic American story of growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937)
Bright Island (1937)
The story of Thankful Curtis, her island home, her time at school and her return.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away (1937)
The story of a train engine that runs away.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Clockwork Twin (1937)
Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Farmer (1937)
A picture book about farming, and a visit to the State Fair.
Author(s):
Henry Bolles Lent
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1937)
Author(s):
Helen Dean Fish
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Green Gravel (1937)
A story of a young girl and her family in an Illinois farm town.
Author(s):
Dora Aydelotte
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
High Water (1937)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
I Hear America Singing (1937)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Little Warrens at Breezy Hollow (1937)
The three Warrens and their friends spend the summer on a farm.
Author(s):
Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Nelly Custis Daughter of Mount Vernon (1937)
Nelly Custis was the granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband. She was adopted by George and Martha at the age of four and grew up at Mount Vernon.
Author(s):
Rose Mortimer Ellzey MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Noodle (1937)
Noodle the wiener dog thinks it might be nice to be a different shape - or would it?
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Over the Blue Wall (1937)
A history of the lands west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from Ponce de Leon to Jefferson.
Author(s):
Etta Lane Matthews
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
Three young boys hop a freight in Alabama to visit their Uncle Jasper Tappin in Harlem.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Tommy Thatcher Goes to Sea (1937)
Tommy had always wanted to go to sea on a sailing ship and at last his chance has come.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Twenty-Two Short Stories of America (1937)
An anthology of fiction about early America.
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bret Harte
Cornelia Meigs
Booth Tarkington
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski