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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Us and the Duchess (1947)
An English setter comes to stay with the Evans family. The paper of this book has deteriorated sadly - read with care.
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
Reisie Lonette
At That Time (1948)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Azor (1948)
Azor can talk to the animals, but no one believes him until …
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Author(s):
Maude Crowley
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Betsy and Joe (1948)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Blow for a Landing (1948)
A novel set on the Mississippi river. Dust jacket is by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Ben Lucien Burman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Alice Caddy
Boom Town Boy (1948)
One family lives the excitement of the Oklahoma oil boom.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Chestry Oak (1948)
A young Hungarian orphan comes to America. This is also the story of a boy and his horse.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Circus Time (1948)
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Five Little Firemen (1948)
“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Freddy Goes Camping (1948)
Mr. Camphor is having aunt problems and calls on Freddy for help.
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Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy the Politician (1948)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Gaston and Joséphine (1948)
Tells of the adventures of two French pigs who visit America.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Ice Cream Is Good (1948)
An advertising piece for the National Dairy Council.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Island Stallion (1948)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Keith Ward
The Isle of Que (1948)
In this story set along the Susquehanna River, a flood alters the lives of the Yoder family.
Author(s):
Elsie Singmaster
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Joe Magarac and His USA Citizenship Papers (1948)
Immigrant Joe Magarac makes plentiful steel for the USA.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Jonathan and the Rainbow (1948)
A pirate captain, a boy just learning to read and The Rainbow Painter’s Society Chapter Number One-Nine-Thee-Eight -- and one very beautiful rainbow rolled up in the cellar.
Author(s):
Jacob Blanck
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Little Farmer (1948)
On a summer’s day, a big farmer and a little farmer work in their fields.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Esphyr Slobodkina
Little Pond in the Woods (1948)
When their pond dries up, the animals of the forest go in search of water.
Author(s):
Muriel Ward
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely