Junior Literary Guild
The Junior Literary Guild is a commercial book club. It began in 1929 as an enterprise of the Literary Guild. By the 1950s, the majority of their book sales were to public libraries. In 2004 they started listing their Junior Literary Guild selections at their own website. What we refer to as “winners” are their selections for different age groups.
Winners:
The Fairy Circus (1931)
Inspired by a human circus that performs in their meadow, the fairies put on a circus of their own for the woodland creatures.
Alice and Thomas and Jane (1931)
Three children have adventures in an English seaside town.
Laurian Jones
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Gingerbread (1932)
On a visit to the baker, the triplets fall in the batter and are made into gingerbread men.
Read online at archive.org.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
How They Carried the Goods: From the Creaking Sleds of Pharaoh to the Swift Airplane of Today (1932)
A series of short vignettes describing how goods were carried in historical times.
Mountain Girl (1932)
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes (1932)
It is mother’s birthday but the triplets are short of funds, so they go to work to earn the money for mother’s birthday present.
Read online at archive.org.
Wagtail (1932)
By following the story of Wagtail, the life cycle of the frog is described in relation both to its surroundings and to other creatures through the seasons.
Alice Gall
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)
At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking.
Read online at archive.org.
Black on White (1932)
What Time Is It? (1932)
Auntie (1932)
Celia Jane spends a year with her Auntie, then when she is grown up and has a son of her own Auntie comes to live with her.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham