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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Who Knows: A Little Primer (1937)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Julia Letheld Hahn
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Who Rides in the Dark? (1937)
Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
James MacDonald
Wings for the Smiths (1937)
Mr. Smith buys an airplane, learns to fly, and takes his family, including the dogs, up in the air.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Working Together: The Inside Story of the Hader Books (1937)
An illustrated look at how two artists work together.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Belinda and the Singing Clock (1938)
Belinda and her father take to the road in a house trailer
Author(s):
Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Bound Girl of Cobble Hill (1938)
A story of the early republic where a young orphan is indentured.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Clue of the Faded Dress (1938)
When a young woman is accused of theft, her four friends rally 'round to solve this Tennessee mountain mystery.
Author(s):
Maristan Chapman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Cricket: The Story of a Little Circus Pony (1938)
The story of a little pony who performs in the circus.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Edgar: The 7:58 (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
High Tension (1938)
Author(s):
William Wister Haines
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Highway Past Her Door (1938)
When Judy’s grandmother dies, she is thrown on her own resources and decides to go into business for herself.
Author(s):
Mary Wolfe Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
A Letter to Popsey (1938)
The Tooseys need some livestock for their new farm home so they write to their Popsey to bring them when he comes.
Author(s):
Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 (1938)
An adaptation of Columbus’ description of his first voyage to America.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Bartolomé de las Casas
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
Pups and Pies (1938)
An omnibus edition containing That Pup, Mike Flannery, The Thin Santa Claus, The Water Goats and The Great American Pie Company.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Stories from a Magic World (1938)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
T-Model Tommy (1938)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Thimble Summer (1938)
Garnet lives on a farm in Wisconsin and has adventures all summer long.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
The Yearling (1938)
Jodie rescues a fawn and raises it on his family’s Florida farm.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Young Settler (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Author(s):
Florence Stebbins Gleeson
Gretchen McKown
Illustrator(s):
Zhenya Gay