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Holidays Genre
Books in the Holidays genre:
Pigeon Post (1936)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art Volume Seven (1937)
Pictures and stories centered around Christmas. Includes ‘How Christmas Came to Blueberry Corners’ by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
The Far-Distant Oxus (1937)
A tale of ponies and adventure set on Exmoor. TEST
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Pigeon Post (1937)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Mary Shepard
A Visit from St. Nicholas (1937)
A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Escape to Persia (1938)
The Hunterly children bet their aunt they can make their way to the Oxus in twenty-four hours with only thirty shillings. The ponies are glad to see them.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Author(s):
Marie Barringer
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Once on Christmas (1938)
An old-time Christmas celebration.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Swallowdale (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons (1938)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Clifford Webb
Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Greetings From Rabbit Hill (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Babar and Father Christmas (1940)
Babar’s children hear of Father Christmas who brings joy and toys to little children. Can Babar find a way to bring him to the Elephants’ country?
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Greased Lightning (1940)
Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940)
The adventures of the smallest of seven sisters ends on St. Nicholas Eve with a ride on his white horse.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Mother Makes Christmas (1940)
Sally and her mother make a Vermont Christmas out of nothing at all.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
Elizabeth Yates
Et al
Illustrator(s):
None