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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 Silver Robin (1947)
The story of a robin’s first year from hatching to the autumn migration.
Malcolm McGuckin, Jr.
Curious George Takes a Job (1947)
Curious George is curious about what lies outside the zoo, so he leaves and takes a job washing windows.
Read online at archive.org.
Son of the Black Stallion (1947)
Alec Ramsay receives the Black’s first foal, a colt named Satan.
The Island Stallion (1948)
When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury toward people. When the stallion gets caught in quicksand, can Steve get close enough to save the wild horse?
My Father’s Dragon (1948)
When an alley cat he befriends tells Elmer Elevator about the captive baby dragon on Wild Island, he determines to go to the island and set him free.
Read online at archive.org.
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Jonathan and the Rainbow (1948)
A pirate captain, a boy just learning to read and The Rainbow Painter’s Society Chapter Number One-Nine-Thee-Eight -- and one very beautiful rainbow rolled up in the cellar.
Robbut a Tale of Tails (1948)
When Robbut saves the Little Man from a trap, he gets his heart’s desire, three times, but in the ends decides he is better off just as he was.
The cover on the trade edition is the same as the dust jacket while the Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding.
Daughter of the Mountains (1948)
Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.
Fish in the Air (1948)
A tale of what Tai Fung, which means Big Wind, did to change the ideas of the little Chinese boy named Fish, who had persuaded his father, Honorable Fish, to buy him the biggest fish shaped kite he could find.
Read online at archive.org.
The Twenty-One Balloons (1948)
Professor William Waterman Sherman left San Francisco on August 15th, 1883 with the intention of flying across the Pacific Ocean. He was picked up three weeks later in the Atlantic Ocean clinging to the wreckage of a platform which had been flown through the air by twenty balloons. His only stop between San Francisco and the Atlantic Ocean was a brief sojourn on the island of Krakatoa, which blew up just after he left it in what is considered to be the most violent eruption of all time.
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
Thidwick doesn’t know what he’s in for when he gives a bingle-bug a ride on his antlers.
Read online at archive.org.
The Chestry Oak (1948)
A young Hungarian orphan comes to America. This is also the story of a boy and his horse.
Canadian Summer (1948)
The Mitchells with their six children move to Canada, but the only house they can find to rent is a ski cabin.
Read online at archive.org.
Watchdog (1948)
A Mexican festival story of birds and dogs and children.
The Door in the Wall (1949)
During the bubonic plague, Robin is challenged with overcoming the loss of use in his legs when he was supposed to be sent off to become a knight.
Dig for a Treasure (1949)
A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.
The Little Grey Men (1949)
The last four gnomes in England live by a brook in Warwickshire. When Cloudberry does not return from an exploring expedition, the other three set out to find him.
Read online at archive.org.
Bob Clifton, Elephant Hunter (1949)
When ferocious African Congo elephants invade the Clifton coffee plantation, trampling and uprooting the bushes which have taken years to grow, young Bob Clifton secures a temporary appointment as government elephant hunter to save his parents' plantation from destruction.
Read online at archive.org.
Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949)
King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. He gets a royal mess.