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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
The Little Fisherman: A Fish Story (1945)
A Big fisherman and a Little fisherman put out into the deep.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Dahlov Ipcar
Longshanks (1945)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Mitchells (1945)
The five Mitchell children and their mother stay behind in Washington D.C. as father goes off to war.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Our Country (1945)
Short stories and poems about the history of the United States.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Dorothy Stall
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Rainbow’s End (1945)
Toby Tubbs, ship’s carpenter, and his cat Blackie are shipwrecked, and decide to settle down and build a house on the shore.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (1945)
A collection of songs and jingles.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Skippy’s Family (1945)
An homage to a dog and his family.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth P. Korn
The Skittle-Skattle Monkey (1945)
Jasmine the monkey gets into mischief as soon as the family walks out the door.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Story of the Southern Highlands (1945)
History and geography of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Strawberry Girl (1945)
Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Stuart Little (1945)
Stuart Little is only two inches tall, but he has great adventures.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Tux ’n Tails (1945)
A humorous inside look at the life of a waiter.
Author(s):
Raymond Andrieux
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Adventures of Arab (1946)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
Betsy and her friends are sophomores at Deep Valley High.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Blue Ridge Billy (1946)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Brave Bantam (1946)
A hen goes all out for the War Production Board in World War II.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louise H. Seaman
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Farm Stories (1946)
Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Freddy the Pied Piper (1946)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams