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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Dear Dragon, and other Useful Letter Forms for Young Ladies and Gentlemen Engaged in Everyday Correspondence (1961)
A humorous guide to epistolary etiquette.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Sesyle Joslin
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
A Good Place to Hide (1961)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Hilary Knight’s ABC (1961)
A mostly animal ABC.
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
I’m Hiding (1961)
A little girl lists all the ways she can hide.
Author(s):
Myra Cohn Livingston
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Island City (1961)
The author tells the history of New York City through a series of short stories about the adventures of young people through the centuries.
Author(s):
Lavinia Riker Davis
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Katie and the Sad Noise (1961)
Katie hears a sad noise in the night, three days running. On the third day, she leads her father and the townsfolk in tracking it down.
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ellie Simmons
The Last of the Wizards (1961)
Peter thinks he has outsmarted the old wizard when he uses his three wishes to wish for more wishes, but has he?
Author(s):
Rona Jaffe
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Little Black: A Pony (1961)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
James Schucker
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1961)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
Mrs. Coverlet’s Magicians (1961)
The Toad is not at all pleased when Miss Eva Penalty takes over for Mrs. Coverlet, and he intends to do something about it.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
New Horizons (1961)
Janey has the opportunity to attend high school on the mainland.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
A Promise to Our Country (1961)
A former nuclear submarine commander explicates the Pledge of Allegiance.
Author(s):
James Calvert
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Purple Hills (1961)
A family of migrant farm workers takes up a homestead in New Mexico, shortly after it achieves statehood, and discovers why the previous owners left.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Return to Gone-Away (1961)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Snow on Blueberry Mountain (1961)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Sibley
Sylvester the Mouse with the Musical Ear (1961)
Uprooted from his home by developers, Sylvester finds a new home in a guitar.
Author(s):
Adelaide Holl
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
There is a Dragon in My Bed: Il y a un Dragon dans Mon Lit, and other Useful Phrases in French and English for Young Ladies and Gentlemen Going Abroad or Staying at Home (1961)
A selection of useful and not so useful phrases in French and English.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Sesyle Joslin
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights (1961)
A brief biography of the author of the Declaration of Independence and second president of the United States of America. This is a later edition of The Way of an Eagle.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Where’s Willie? (1961)
The black kitten and Peter play hide-and-seek.
Author(s):
Seymour Reit
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad