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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Big City (1947)
The story of life in New York City as it grows from an Indian settlement.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Earthworms through the Ages: The Wisdom of Alexander Botts (1947)
These entries in the Botts saga take him from 1932 to 1947.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
Every Month was May (1947)
A book of reminisences by a Canadian author.
Author(s):
Evelyn Eaton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Freddy the Magician (1947)
Freddy, that multi-talented pig, takes up stage magic and prestidigitation.
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Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden Flash (1947)
A steam-driven fire engine ends up in a mining boom town and saves the day.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Happy Family (1947)
The story of a typical American family.
Author(s):
Nicole
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
How to Be Rich, Like Me (1947)
Successful author William Hazlett Upson explains his method of making money without really working.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Judy’s Journey (1947)
The story of a family of migrant farm workers.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Legends of Paul Bunyan (1947)
Paul Bunyan and Babe his great blue ox led the havesting of America's virgin forests, from Maine to Oregon.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1947)
An illustrated version of the famous address.
Author(s):
Abraham Lincoln
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Mr. Peck’s Pets (1947)
Mr. Peck rescues animals in distress and adds them to his household.
Author(s):
Louise H. Seaman
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Once in the Year: A Christmas Story (1947)
Peter goes out on Christmas Eve to see the flowering of the forest and hear the farm animals talking in the byre.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Positive Pete (1947)
Pete gets anxious when his master becomes interested in a girl. But she knows well the way to a dog’s heart.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Seaweed Hat (1947)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Silver Robin (1947)
The story of a robin’s first year from hatching to the autumn migration.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Frank Dobias
Malcolm McGuckin, Jr.
Son of the Black Stallion (1947)
Alec Ramsay receives the Black’s first foal, a colt named Satan.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Milton Menasco
The Story of Florida (1947)
The story of Florida, copiously illustrated with lithographs.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People (1947)
This is a newly illustrated version of one of Baum's non-Oz fantasies.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Evelyn Copelman
A Tale of Two Glimps (1947)
A promotional book for color television.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans