Best of
Juvenile

1931

Penrod: His Complete Story


Booth Tarkington - 1931
    This compilation takes the contents of Penrod (1914), Penrod and Sam (1916), and Penrod Jashber (1929) and rearranges the stories to form a "biography" of its young hero.

The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket


Eleanor Farjeon - 1931
    The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories of princes and princesses, Greek gods, sea captains and other wonderful characters she had come across in her hundreds of years as a children's nurse. All the tales were so entrancing that the boys could hardly be blamed for sometimes making large holes on purpose, so that they'd have a long story to match!

The Stars for Sam


W. Maxwell Reed - 1931
    With the coming of the space age, our boundaries are constantly expanded. Here, in one volume, is a fascinating, highly readable, and comprehensive account of the universe as we know it today.The Stars for Same, written for the author's young nephew and first published in 1931, has long been acknowledged as a classic in its field. It has now been completely revised by a well-known scientist and educator to include the many new and often breath-taking discoveries that have been made by the world's scientists. Entirely redesigned and generously illustrated throughout with new photographs, The Stars for Same describes our own solar system, the earth's place in it, the universe and its galaxies, and the world of space that we are now entering. This is an important book in one of the fields of science most vital for today and for the years to come.

A Boy Scout With Byrd


Paul Siple - 1931
    A record of Richard Byrd’s first expedition to the South Pole.