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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
When I Have a Little Girl (1965)
When I have a little girl, all the rules will be different.
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Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Whispering Rabbit (1965)
When a bumble bee gets stuck in his throat, the little rabbit can only whisper.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Whispering Rabbit, and Other Stories (1965)
Includes The Whispering Rabbit, Scupper’s Song, The Friendly Book, The Golden Egg Book and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Lilian Obligado
Garth Williams
Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book (1966)
A batch of new recipes by one who doesn’t like to cook.
Author(s):
Peg Bracken
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Captain Horatio Hornblower: a condensation of Beat to Quarters (1966)
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C. S. Forester
Mary O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
James E. Bama
Confessions of a Dilettante (1966)
A collection of essays, including “Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow.”
Author(s):
Russell Lynes
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
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Daddy-Long-Legs (1966)
A young woman who grew up in an orphange writes regular letters to the man who is paying her way through college.
Author(s):
Jean Webster
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Edie on the Warpath (1966)
Edie can’t seem to stay out of trouble - things just happen to her.
Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
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From Colony to Nation (1966)
An account of the American Revolution abd the events leading up to it, particularly in New York, and General Washington's part in it during the years 1775-1784.
Author(s):
Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Good-Byes of Magnus Marmalade (1966)
Magnus lets his true feelings flow in poetry.
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Author(s):
Doris Orgel
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Great Dane Thor (1966)
Lars learns what it means to be responsible, and what it means to have a dog as a pet.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Joseph Cellini
Henry Reed’s Baby-Sitting Service (1966)
Henry and Midge decide to start a baby-sitting service as their summer project.
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
High-Rise Secret (1966)
Life for Peggy in a high-rise development is rather grim.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
I’m Waiting (1966)
A young girls thinks of her day as a time of waiting.
Author(s):
Myra Cohn Livingston
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Muffletumps The Story of Four Dolls (1966)
When the family goes on summer vacation, the Muffletumps come down from the attic.
Author(s):
Jan Wahl
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
ODTAA (1966)
Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see if what he can make of himself.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Peter Kettle
Oscar Lobster’s Fair Exchange (1966)
Oscar and his friends decide if the humans can collect shells, they can collect human artefacts.
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Peter Lippman
Plum Pie (1966)
A collection of short stories starring favorite Wodehouse characters, including Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Bingo Little, and Freddie Threepwood. The British edition includes additional material.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Professor Diggins’ Dragons (1966)
Five children embarked on a seaside vacation are not expecting to find dragons.
Author(s):
Felice Holman
Nadine Elisabeth Valen
Illustrator(s):
Ib Ohlsson