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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Peter Graves (1950)
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Pippi Longstocking (1950)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Smeller Martin (1950)
Davey Martin is known to his friends as Smeller because of his keen sense of smell. He puts this gift to good use in this story of a summer of adventure.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
A Bird in the Hand: Sayings From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1951)
Author(s):
Benjamin Franklin
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Centerburg Tales (1951)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1951)
An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c., and Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
McWhinney’s Jaunt (1951)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
No Rest for Botts: Earthworms Make the World Go Round (1951)
Master tractor salesman Alexander Botts has been discharged from the army and is back in action.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Nothing Serious (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
The Old Reliable (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Earl Oliver Hurst
The Old Reliable (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Rootabaga Stories (1951)
Omnilbus collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies including Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Showmen and Suckers (1951)
A survey of popular entertainment from high class to low.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Young Visiters, or Mr Salteena’s Plan (1951)
This Victorian novel was written by its author at the age of nine and became a bestseller when first published in 1919.
Author(s):
Daisy Ashford
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Angel Cake (1952)
Cyril is a young hotel clerk who is advised to invest his inherited fortune in Broadway theatricals.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Earl Oliver Hurst
Barmy in Wonderland (1952)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Don Camillo and His Flock (1952)
The second collection of stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.
Author(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
Illustrator(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
The Girls From Esquire (1952)
Anthology of stories and cartoon published in Esquire magazine.
Author(s):
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Et al
The Humour of Dickens (1952)
A collection of Dickens snippets with illustrations by various hands.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Michael Cummings
Giles
Osbert Lancaster
Ronald Searle