Logging you in...
American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Animal Stories (1944)
Forty-six original stories featuring our animal friends. Some editions have only thirty-six stories.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Animal Stories #8008 (1944)
Original stories featuring our animal friends. This is a later edition with about half as many stories. It is a Big not a Giant Little Golden Book.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (1944)
Further adventures of five year old Barnaby and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
A Bee in Her Bonnet (1944)
A young girl living on a farm in Nebraska takes up apiculture.
Author(s):
Eva M. Kristoffersen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Belinda the Mouse (1944)
Peter and Judy have an almost-grown-up older sister, who does not appreciate it when they play with her things.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Belinda the Mouse and Peggy and the Pup (1944)
Two stories in one volume.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Bells of Leyden Sing (1944)
The story of the last year the Pilgrims spent in Holland before setting out for the Massachusetts Colony.
Author(s):
Catherine Cate Coblentz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Big Brown Bear (1944)
The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Botts in War, Botts in Peace: Earthworms Can Take Anything (1944)
This entry in the saga of Alexander Botts, natural born salesman, takes him from 1933 to fighting in World War II.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Connecticut Cookbook (1944)
This is a collection of recipes from Connecticut kitchens, equally adapted for wartime and peacetime.
Author(s):
The Woman’s Club of Westport
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Robert Lawson
Et al
Down the Big River (1944)
Tom Lockwood and his parents are travelling down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Freddy and Mr. Camphor (1944)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Horse Who Lived Upstairs (1944)
Joey lives in the city and pulls a vegetable cart, but longs for the country, until he gets to try farm life for himself.
Author(s):
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Helen Stone
The Hundred Dresses (1944)
Wanda wears the same dress to school, but she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved (1944)
Jenny may be old, but she’s not decrepit and she has a gold button on her dash.
Author(s):
Maurice Dolbier
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Little Stone House (1944)
The author/artists tell the story of how they built themselves a house in the woods from the native stone and timber.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Long Trains Roll (1944)
Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Melendy Family (1944)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
The New Wizard of Oz (1944)
This edition contains a new set of illustrations. The dust jacket is from a later issue, not in Bienvenue.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Evelyn Copelman
Puritan Adventure (1944)
A story about the daily life of the Puritans in Massachusetts in the 1630’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski