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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
The Best of Ernest Thompson Seton (1949)
Selections from Seton’s animal biographies.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Big Elephant (1949)
Growing tired of the circus, the elephant settles in a small town.
Read online at archive.org. This is a later edition.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Big World and the Little House (1949)
The whole family -- three generations and the dog -- join together to make a rundown old house into a home.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
Bixxy and the Secret Message (1949)
When Bixxy the carrier pigeon gets lost, the cub scouts come to his assistance.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Black Stallion and Satan (1949)
The Black Stallion returns to Alec Ramsay and races his son Satan.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Milton Menasco
Cedar’s Boy (1949)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Lee Townsend
Cocolo Comes to America (1949)
Cocolo, the little Italian donkey and his master Lucio come to America.
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Cowboy Kitten (1949)
Theodore kitten pays a visit to his grandmother, but grandfather really understands him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Cowboy Small (1949)
The adventures of Cowboy Small.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Dig for a Treasure (1949)
A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Easter Bunny (1949)
Thomas rabbit collects Easter eggs.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Flossie and Bossie (1949)
A tale of two chickens.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eva Le Gallienne
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Freddy Goes to Florida (1949)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy Plays Football (1949)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Hello, Mr. Henderson (1949)
Alexander Botts’ boss, Mr. Henderson has enough troubles of his own keeping Earthworm tractor buyers happy.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
The Hidden Burro (1949)
Dorothy and Wally take their burro Chula to the nation’s capital for the summer - but their parents don’t know.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
A House for Ten (1949)
A family with ten children live on a farm in Indiana in the 1850’s.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Johnny’s Machines (1949)
A boy and a machine -- classic.
Author(s):
Helen Palmer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt