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American Indian Genre
Books in the American Indian genre:
Little Buffalo Boy (1939)
A story about the plains Indians.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Michel’s Island (1940)
Michel Jarnac, son of a French voyageur and grandson of an Indian chief, lives on Mackinac Island in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Kimbi, Indian of the Jungle (1941)
The life of a native in the south American jungle.
Author(s):
Henry Lionel Williams
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Harry Daugherty
The Golden Wedge (1942)
A collection of nine tales drawn from the indigenous people of South America.
Author(s):
Delos W. Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Charlotte Anne Chase
The Mighty Hunter (1943)
The mighty hunter skips school to go hunting, but an encounter with a bear makes him decide that he should work on his education.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Oregon Trail (1943)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Maynard Dixon
The Story of the Great Plains (1943)
History and geography of the Great Plains including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell’s Story (1943)
At sixteen John Haskell is suddenly the man of his family and makes good.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Daniel Boone (1945)
A brief biography of the American backwoodsman and explorer who opened up the west. In this edition, the text has been considerably enlarged.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Indian Harvest: Wild Food Plants of America (1945)
An exploration of the wild foods growing in North America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jannette May Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Roger Mouse’s Wish (1949)
Roger Mouse likes to play Indian, and now he has his own Indian outfit!
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (1950)
Jamestown, colonists, Indians and heroes fill this story of early America.
Author(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Illustrator(s):
William Sharp
Peter Pan (1951)
The story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his foster mother Wendy, and his great adversary James Hook.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Children’s Hour Volume 11 (1953)
A collection of stories about the pioneers in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Indian (1954)
The story of a small Indian girl and her father.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Thanksgiving Story (1954)
A retelling of the story of the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Home on the Range (1955)
Jerry goes out West to be a cowboy, and swaps places with his friend Little Bear to see what it would be like to be an Indian.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Our Lady of Guadalupe (1955)
The story of Our Lady’s appearance to Juan Diego and the conversion of Mexico.
Author(s):
Helen Rand Parish
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot