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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Reading for Fun (1939)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Julia Letheld Hahn
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Dorothy Handsaker
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz (1939)
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Week-End Wodehouse (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Herbert F. Roese
Week-End Wodehouse (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
no first name Kerr
Wiggins for President (1939)
The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Later published as Freddy the Politician.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Yearling (1939)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1940)
Twain’s masterpiece illustrated by America’s master illustrator.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
Betsy - Tacy (1940)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Blueberry Corners (1940)
An historical novel about two young girls growing up in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Call of the Mountain (1940)
Young Nathan Lindsay tries to carve a farm out of the mountains of Vermont in the 1830’s.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Clear for Action! (1940)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Frank Beaudouin
The Country Noisy Book (1940)
Muffin vacations in the country and hears many new sounds.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
A historical novel of the third voyage of Columbus.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Philip Gough
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Freddy’s Cousin Weedly (1940)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Ghostland: A Novel (1940)
The story of a family that moved to a farm in the Ozarks just before the depression, and fought it out.
Author(s):
Fred Rothermell
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Greased Lightning (1940)
Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Growing Pains (1940)
How Dear to My Heart (1940)
A biography of growing up in Missouri, by the popular journalist and radio host.
Author(s):
Mary Margaret McBride
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader