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:
A Child’s Story of the World (1937)
Jasmine: A Story of Present Day Persia (1937)
The Little Boy and His House (1937)
Steven Bone
Steven Bone
Introducing the Constellations (1937)
Márcos, a Mountain Boy of Mexico (1937)
Marcos sets out to seek his fortune.
Elmer Hader
Honey Chile (1937)
Silver Chief to the Rescue (1937)
Silver Chief is the son of a Husky whose father was a wolf. After his mother is killed he hates all mankind until a Canadian Mountie, Jim Thorne, shows him kindness and tames and trains him.
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Portraits of the Iron Horse (1937)
Otto Kuhler
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
Pigeon Post (1937)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip.
Mary Shepard
Private Props (1937)
The Clockwork Twin (1937)
Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.
Kurt Wiese
Swords and Statues (1937)
This is the story of how Carlo Brunelli becomes a goldsmith in Italy in the 1500’s.
The blue cloth binding is the trade edition. The Junior Literary Guild edition is slightly taller and has an orange cloth binding.
The Castle Number Nine (1937)
Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.