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Holidays Genre
Books in the Holidays genre:
The Night Before Christmas (1951)
T’was the night before Christmas
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring
Note even a mouse.
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Strong Wings (1951)
Three siblings winter in a Maine fishing village while their parents are in Europe.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Christmas in the Barn (1952)
A poetic evocation of Christmas, set in a twentieth-century farm.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Stars Over Bethlehem (1952)
A Christmas story.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
In Clean Hay (1953)
A Christmas story about a puppet show in Poland.
Author(s):
Eric Philbrook Kelly
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)
The four younger Marlows and their mother are spending the Easter holidays by the sea when they stumble on a spy.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Doritie Kettlewell
Winona’s Pony Cart (1953)
Winona is hoping for a pony for her birthday.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Christmas Eve (1954)
An illustrated poem to be given as a Christmas card.
Author(s):
C. Day Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Little Fir Tree (1954)
The little fir tree is dug up and comes to a little boy as a Christmas tree two years running, but the third year the little boy comes to him.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Mr. Petersand’s Cats (and Kittens) (1954)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mystery of Mont Saint-Michel (1955)
A group of French schoolmates explore the history of the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.
Author(s):
Michel Rouzé
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Islanders (1956)
“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Open Book (1956)
A collection of stories, essays, poems, songs and music for boys and girls and every member of all Christian families.
Author(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Marcia Lane Foster
Falconer’s Lure (1957)
The Marlows inherit Trennels Old Farm and move to the country where they spend the summer holidays.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Tasha Kallin
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
The Grinch can’t stand to see the Whos down in Whosville preparing for Christmas.
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The Magic Christmas Tree (1957)
Two small girls independently adopt a small pine tree for Christmas -- then one day they meet.
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
My Christmas Book (1957)
A collection of traditional songs and stories. Cover is by Scarry.
Author(s):
Sheilah Beckett
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
On Christmas Night (1957)
Author(s):
Adolf Bolm
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone