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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
Instant Etiquette Book (1964)
A mid- twentieth century etiquette book for Americans.
Author(s):
Peg Bracken
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Irregulars Strike Again (1964)
On a winter camping expedition the two boy detectives run into some skulduggery.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
George Wilson
Jewels from the Moon and The Meteor That Couldn’t Stay (1964)
Two short stories in which David and Chuck take a dream journey then help Mr. Bass recover a brumblium meteorite. This was written as an elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Vic Dowd
Lizzie’s Twins (1964)
Lizzie has twin dolls, but one is her favorite.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Doris Adelberg
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mr. Papadilly and Willy (1964)
Mr. Papadilly and Willy try to retire from the circus but can’t stay away from it.
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Author(s):
Florence Slobodkin
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
My Bedtime Book (1964)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Pushcart War (1964)
Author(s):
Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s):
Ronni Solbert
Robert Goddard Trail Blazer to the Stars (1964)
The life of the rocket pioneer.
Author(s):
Charles Michael Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Shoe Bird (1964)
A parrot's repetitions result in chaos.
Author(s):
Eudora Alice Welty
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Stranger on Big Hickory (1964)
Skip Rollins decides to join 4-H and pursue his hobby of wildlife photography.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Lambo
Too Steep for Baseball (1964)
Their farm is too steep to play baseball, so the boys take up climbing.
Author(s):
Arthur Donald Stapp
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Under the Sun (1964)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles from Elizabethan magazine and other sources.
Author(s):
John Verney
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
C. Walter Hodges
Ronald Searle
John Verney
Brian Wildsmith
Et al
Walt Whitman’s America (1964)
Selections from Leaves of Grass and other works of the transcendentalist, realist, humanist prose poet.
Author(s):
Walt Whitman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up (1964)
Walter seeks advice on his future career, but doesn’t like it.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Animal Garden (1965)
Roy and Joy would like a pet, but their parents are allergic - until Abidan Allseed gives them some vegetable pets.
Author(s):
Ogden Nash
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Bell That Rang for Freedom (1965)
A history of colonial Philadelphia and its Liberty Bell that rang for the new United States.
Author(s):
Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
A Blow for Liberty (1965)
Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
Boy with a Pack (1965)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Castles in the Sand (1965)
When Ben and Ann write something in the sand it immediately appears.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Betty Fraser
A Child’s Calendar (1965)
A poem for each month of the year.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Updike
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert