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Magic Genre
Books in the Magic genre:
The Magic Bed-Knob (1943)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Waldo Peirce
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)
The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims
Oswald’s Pet Dragon (1943)
Oswald is an amateur magician whose household tricks annoy his wife. He finds a unique solution to keeping his dragon for a pet while satisfying his critical wife.
Author(s):
Carl Glick
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Clover Magic (1944)
Elizabeth and her sister Jane meet the great ladies of English history, including Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, thanks to Titania and the Magic Clover.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved (1944)
Jenny may be old, but she’s not decrepit and she has a gold button on her dash.
Author(s):
Maurice Dolbier
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
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
The Little White Horse (1946)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Little White Horse (1946)
As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Magic Bed-Knob (1946)
Carey, Charles and Paul discover that their neighbor, Miss Price is a witch. To gain their silence she agrees to give them a magic bed-know that allows their bed to travel through space and time.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Joan Kiddell-Monroe
When it Rained Cats and Dogs (1946)
On a magical day, cats and kittens, dogs and puppies rain down on waiting children.
Author(s):
Nancy Byrd Turner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947)
Two years after their adventures with the magic bed-knob, Carey, Charles and Paul return to spend the summer with Miss Price - and the magic begins.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Mary Adshead
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Three Brothers and a Lady, a Tale (1947)
Two brothers and an invisible playmate rescue a princess.
Author(s):
Margaret Black
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Five Children and It (1948)
Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. S. Goodall
The Magic Bus (1948)
Author(s):
Maurice Dolbier
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Harding’s Luck (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
The House of Arden (1949)
Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle comes to the rescue of parents who don’t know what to do when their children act up.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Story of the Amulet (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. S. Goodall