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