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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Many Moons (1943)
Author(s):
James Thurber
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Moriae Encomium: or, In Praise of Folly (1943)
A satirical tour de force which had the unlooked for effect of encouraging the Protestants, although its author, a good friend of Sir (Saint) Thomas More remained faithful.
Author(s):
Desiderius Erasmus
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Sun and The Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Animals, Plants and Machines (1944)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Edith Newlin
Illustrator(s):
Clare Bice
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (1944)
Further adventures of five year old Barnaby and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Botts in War, Botts in Peace: Earthworms Can Take Anything (1944)
This entry in the saga of Alexander Botts, natural born salesman, takes him from 1933 to fighting in World War II.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Country Colic (1944)
Robert Lawson has written an illustrated glossary of the joys and travails of country living.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Egbert and His Marvelous Adventures (1944)
The extraordinary adventures of Egbert, who thinks nothing of bringing home a white elephant or a seal.
Author(s):
Paul T. Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
Rabbit Hill (1944)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Wind on the Moon: A Story for Children (1944)
Dinah and Dorinda determine to be naughty while their father is away.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Censored the Goat (1945)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Egg and I (1945)
The creator of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle started in life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Mr. Wilmer (1945)
When William Wilmer learns, on his 29th birthday, that he can understand animals and talk to them, his dreary life gets a change for the better -- and wilder.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Pippi Longstocking (1945)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
Tux ’n Tails (1945)
A humorous inside look at the life of a waiter.
Author(s):
Raymond Andrieux
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Harriet (1946)
Harriet pulls the delivery wagon for Sedgerow, Ltd. until her retirement to the country to live with Edward, ‘That Nice Young Man.’ To celebrate her first birthday in the country she receives a very special present.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Charles McKinley, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Joy in the Morning (1946)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Money in the Bank (1946)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck in the Air (1946)
Further adventures of the two peculiar creatures from the shores of the Bay of Fundy.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
W. C. Nims
Mr. Wilmer (1946)
On his twenty-ninth birthday William Wilmer discovers that he can converse with animals. From then on, life became highly exciting and lots of fun. This is the first British edition.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson