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:
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)
At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking.
Read online at archive.org.
Wagtail (1932)
By following the story of Wagtail, the life cycle of the frog is described in relation both to its surroundings and to other creatures through the seasons.
Alice Gall
Jo Ann, Tomboy (1933)
Jo Ann has her work cut out for her to bring Tommy Bassick to heel.
Louise A. Kent
Peter Duck (1933)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint sail in search of treasure and must fight not only a hurricane but also pirates.
Arthur Ransome
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr The Magic Horse and The Gingerbread (1933)
The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land and visit the baker where they are turned into gingerbread men.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Magic Horse (1933)
The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land.
The Black Spearman (1934)
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.
Dobry (1934)
Down, Down the Mountain (1934)
The Book of Zoography (1934)
A survey of the world’s animals that end up in our zoos.