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:
Winter Holiday (1934)
Dick and Dorothea are spending the winter holidays by the lake where they meet the Swallows and Amazons. Thanks to Nancy’s mumps their vacation is extended as the lake freezes over.
Arthur Ransome
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.
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.
The Black Spearman (1934)
The Conquest of Mexico (1934)
One-volume edition. Introduction by Carl Van Doren
Kees and Kleintje (1934)
The further adventures of a little Dutch boy, Kees, and his pet duck Kleintje.
Young Mexico (1934)
Miki and Mary: Their Search for Treasures (1934)
Miki and Mary take a world tour on an ocean liner and bring back souvenirs of their travels.
Read online at archive.org.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (1934)
The story of a school outing on the frozen Dutch canals.
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist (1934)
Fiona and the Urchin set out on a treasure hunt. The Urchin is looking for the doubloons lost by the wreck of the Spanish Armada. Fiona is searching for the Treasure of the Isle of Mist. Robert Lawson did the pictures.
Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)
A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s.
Read online at archive.org.
Farm Boy: A Hunt for Indian Treasure (1934)
Harlan visits his cousins on their farm and helps them hunt for Indian treasure.
Good Wind and Good Water (1934)
Nancy C. Osborne
Alexander, the Tale of a Monkey (1934)
A delightful tale about a baby monkey who becomes a pet and the many escapades he gets into.
Marion Brown
All Sail Set (1935)
When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the “Flying Cloud.”