Best of
Juvenile

1956

A Room for Cathy


Catherine Woolley - 1956
    But when family finances are threatened, she must swallow her disappointment and give up her room to share with sister Chris.

Cinnabar: The One O'Clock Fox


Marguerite Henry - 1956
    He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He’s a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o’clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox?Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon, Cinnabar pits one very wily fox against George Washington himself—and the result is a wild chase for all!

Cousins


Evan Commager - 1956
    The charm of Southern traditions in a story of three young people who follow a family mystery and find romance, as they search for an elusive lady named Felicity.

The Amazing Vacation


Dan Wickenden - 1956
    

Mystery of the Auction Trunk


Elizabeth Hoffman Honness - 1956
    The summer would hold more than swimming and horseback riding, blueberry pancakes and picnics at the lake, but they didn't begin to guess how much more until Nancy bid for an old trunk at a country auction. The Hollands were vacationing in an old house which had once belonged to a New Hampshire primitive artist whose paintings had lately become fashionable and valuable. A menacing art dealer, Mr. Cummings, was on the trail of yet undiscovered paintings and would stop at nothing to get hold of them. The children were afraid he might even get their marvelous house away from them.

The Family Treasury of Children's Stories: Book 1


Pauline Rush Evans - 1956
    Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)The Real Princess (The Princess and the Pea)Hansel and GretelA KiteThe Three SilliesRumpelstiltskinApril Rain SongBed in SummerCan Men be Such Fools as all ThatThe Ugly DucklingRainThe Adventures of a Brownie...The brownie and the CookThe Peterkin Papers...Mrs. Peterkin Wishes to go to a DriveWinnie-the-Pooh...Pooh Goes VisitingWhere go the Boats?The Little TurtleThe Little ElfmanThe 500 Hats of Bartholomew CubbingBoats Sail on the RiversThe King's Breakfast

McGillicuddy McGotham


Leonard Wibberley - 1956
    Timothy Patrick Fergus Kevin Sean Desmond McGillicuddy (for short) is a leprechaun diplomat on a mission to convince the President of the United States to halt the construction of a new U.S.-owned airport on a tract of Little People land in Ireland. With the belief “mischief is me nature” and the help of a 10-year-old American boy, he proves wee folk a big force to be reckoned with.

The Amazing Nellie Bly


Mignon Rittenhouse - 1956
    

Sleeping Beauty


Evelyn Andreas - 1956
    

The Lone Hunt


William O. Steele - 1956
    Story of a buffalo hunt and a boy's struggle to grow up.

All about Strange Beasts of the Past


Roy Chapman Andrews - 1956