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:
Children of the Covered Wagon (1934)
Winter Holiday (1934)
Dick and Dorothea are spending the winter holidays by the lake where they meet the Swallows and Amazons. Thanks to Nancy’s mumps their vacation is extended as the lake freezes over.
Arthur Ransome
A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (1934)
The story of a school outing on the frozen Dutch canals.
Dobry (1934)
The Conquest of Mexico (1934)
One-volume edition. Introduction by Carl Van Doren
The Black Spearman (1934)
Down, Down the Mountain (1934)
The Book of Zoography (1934)
A survey of the world’s animals that end up in our zoos.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (1934)
The triplets want butter for their bread, but mother has no cream and the cow has no milk because there is no grass because the sun did not shine.
Read online at archive.org.
Bluebonnets For Lucinda (1934)
Lucinda live on an island of the coast of Texas and comes to the mainland when the bluebonnets are in bloom.
Jean Lafitte, Gentleman Smuggler (1934)
Miki and Mary: Their Search for Treasures (1934)
Miki and Mary take a world tour on an ocean liner and bring back souvenirs of their travels.
Read online at archive.org.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham