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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Eloise (1955)
Author(s):
Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars (1955)
Freddy helps Mr. Boomschmidt organize an animal and Martian baseball team.
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Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden History of the World: A Child’s Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times (1955)
A brief illustrated world history.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Commander George Krause is the shepherd who brings a convoy home across the Atlantic in the face of the German wolfpack.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Cobb
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
R. A. Genders
Guns for the Saratoga (1955)
Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Happy Family (1955)
The story of a typical American family.
Author(s):
Nicole
Illustrator(s):
Corinne Malvern
Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Henry Reed, Inc. (1955)
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Home on the Range (1955)
Jerry goes out West to be a cowboy, and swaps places with his friend Little Bear to see what it would be like to be an Indian.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
I Play at the Beach (1955)
A girl enjoys a sunny day at the beach.
Author(s):
Dorothy Koch
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Island Stallion Races (1955)
With the help of an extraterrestrial visitor, Steve Duncan races Flame.
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Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
Junket: The Dog Who Liked Everything Just So (1955)
Author(s):
Anne H. White
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Miss Posy Longlegs (1955)
Posy the long-legged calf proves to have a talent for jumping.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Our Lady of Guadalupe (1955)
The story of Our Lady’s appearance to Juan Diego and the conversion of Mexico.
Author(s):
Helen Rand Parish
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
The Rainbow Book of American History (1955)
A popular history of the United States from the Vikings to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Author(s):
Earl Schenck Miers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
San Francisco Boy (1955)
A story about a family of Chinese Americans who live in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (1955)
When twins Joan and Joey Brown discover George, the shy stegosaurus, he helps them save their mother’s ranch.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Herbert Buel
Smokey the Bear (1955)
The legend of the little bear who went on to become a spokesman for the National Forests.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tor and Azor (1955)
Further adventures of a six year old boy who can talk to the animals. In this book he befriends an orphan from Norway.
Author(s):
Maude Crowley
Illustrator(s):
Veronica Reed