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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
The Puritan Experiment (1977)
A history of Puritanism in America.
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Author(s):
Francis J. Bremer
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The School Mouse (1977)
Author(s):
Dorothy Joan Harris
Illustrator(s):
Chris Conover
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (1977)
Six stories and poems with a different illustrator for each on the subject of ‘impossible.’
Author(s):
Norma Farber
Illustrator(s):
And others
Tomie dePaola
Trina Schart Hyman
Hilary Knight
Appelard and Liverwurst (1978)
Author(s):
Mercer Mayer
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Bored - Nothing to Do! (1978)
Two brothers decide to build an airplane -- and it flies!
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Bored - Nothing to Do! (1978)
Two brothers decide to build an airplane and it works!
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Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Circus is Coming (1978)
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Hickory (1978)
The story of a mouse and a grasshopper, told in the author’s inimitable style, with his charming subtly colored illustrations.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Mystery of the Magic Green Ball (1978)
Timmy has searched everywhere for his missing green ball.
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Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Nelebel’s Fairyland (1978)
Exiled from Burzee, a fairy builds a new land in California, in this tale originally published in a high school newspaper.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
None
Someone New (1978)
A young boy realizes he is growing up.
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Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1978)
Whose woods there are, I think I know.
His house is in the vilage, though;
Author(s):
Robert Frost
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Vintage Wodehouse (1978)
A wide-ranging collection of Wodehouse short stories.
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Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Where Did My Mother Go? (1978)
Little Cat thinks his mother is lost, but is she?
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Author(s):
Edna Mitchell Preston
Illustrator(s):
Chris Conover
Dance on the Dusty Earth (1979)
Based on her travels, the author describes traditional dances in more primitive societies.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Education of Henry Adams (1979)
The author was displeased with his classical Harvard education and spent the rest of his life studying to overcome it.
Author(s):
Henry Brooks Adams
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Jill the Pill (1979)
Patrick’s older sister Jill bosses him around, and he doesn’t like it.
Author(s):
Julia Castiglia
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Little House Cookbook (1979)
Now you can eat the same dishes Ma served to Pa, Laura and her sisters.
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Author(s):
Barbara M. Walker
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Molly Moves Out (1979)
Molly decides she wants to live on her own … but it is a little lonely.
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Author(s):
Susan Pearson
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Motel of the Mysteries (1979)
A satirical look at American culture, and not incidentally, archeological research.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay