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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Make Way for Ducklings (1941)
Mrs. Mallard proudly parades her ducklings to the Boston Public Garden.
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Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Moffats (1941)
The Moffats live on New Dollar Street with their widowed mother who is a seamstress.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mountain Mystery (1941)
When Lum Morgan tries to steal back Broken Key farm, the girls of Glen Hazard must go into action again.
Author(s):
Maristan Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
A Name for Obed (1941)
Author(s):
Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Nothing At All (1941)
When his two visible brothers are chosen as pets by a two children, their invisible brother realizes he must get to work and make himself visible so he too can become a pet.
Pirate Waters (1941)
Young midshipman Harry Gringo sails aboard a U.S. Navy corvette in pursuit of a band of pirates.
Author(s):
Edwin L. Sabin
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Poor Richard (1941)
A biography of Benjamin Franklin for young people.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Saturdays (1941)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
Author(s):
John R. Neill
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
The Story of New England (1941)
An illustrated story of New England for young people.
Author(s):
Marshall McClintock
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Story of the Mississippi (1941)
The mighty Mississippi in full color.
Author(s):
Marshall McClintock
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Susannah the Pioneer Cow (1941)
Susannah and her calves Posy and Rosy travel from Virginia to a new home in the Midwest.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Tag-Along Tooloo (1941)
Tooloo is too little to play with the big girls, but she still wants to tag-along.
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Author(s):
Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
A Tree for Peter (1941)
Peter’s life is changed when he meets Peter King in shantytown
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)
A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.
Author(s):
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Young Patriots (1941)
Patty escapes capture by pirates during the Revolutionary War and ends up on Block Island.
Author(s):
Marjorie A. Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
All-American (1942)
Ronald Perry is the star of a High School football team. In a hard tackle, he nearly kills a Jewish boy playing for the rival school. Perry wrestles with how to make things right.
Author(s):
John R. Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Hans Walleen
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in these adventures.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Don Coyote (1942)
A collection of folk tales from the southwest.
Author(s):
Leigh Peck
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)
Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Jack Conroy
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton