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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Ballad Makin’ in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939)
Kentucky ballads, many with music.
Author(s):
Walter Kob
Jean Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Ben and Me (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
Boy with a Pack (1939)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Children of America (1939)
Sixteen stories about American children.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Lois Lenski
Leonard Weisgard
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art Volume Nine (1939)
A collection of Christmas art, stories, songs and poems. Includes The Pink China Bonbon Dish by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939)
Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.
Author(s):
DuBose Heyward
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
Cowhand Goes to Town (1939)
Sam goes to town with his father for the cattle auctions, and hopes to get a six-shooter.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Golden Tales of the Southwest (1939)
A collection of short stories by southwestern authors or about the southwestern United States.
Author(s):
O. Henry
Helen Hunt Jackson
Stewart Edward White
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
After the boom times of World War I and the roaring twenties, the farm population was not ready for the hard times of the 1930’s. And many in the Oklahoma dust bowl picked up and made for the promised land of California.
Author(s):
John Steinbeck
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales (1939)
Includes stories of Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, Pecos Bill and many others.
Author(s):
Olive Beaupré Miller
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
Horses and Americans (1939)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Frederic Remington
Kurt Wiese
Little Pig’s Picnic, and Other Stories (1939)
Ten stories based on Disney cartoons, including The Old Mill, the first to be shot on the multiplane camera.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Walt Disney Studio
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939)
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Noisy Book (1939)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Ocean-Born Mary (1939)
A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy