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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:
Márcos, a Mountain Boy of Mexico (1937)
Marcos sets out to seek his fortune.
Elmer Hader
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
The Castle Number Nine (1937)
Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.
Walter, the Lazy Mouse (1937)
Walter, the lazy mouse, becomes industrious when his family moves away and he has to take care of himself.
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale (1937)
King Douda enlists the seven Simeons to help him find a bride.
Bright Island (1937)
The story of Thankful Curtis, her island home, her time at school and her return.
Read online at archive.org.
The Clockwork Twin (1937)
Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.
Kurt Wiese
The Earth Changes (1937)
A palaeontological history of the earth for children.
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.
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
I Hear America Singing (1937)
This is a collection of poems about cowboys, and trains, trappers and sawyers from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Northwoods to the Gulf.
The dark blue library binding is the JLG edition. The grey binding is the trade binding.
The Book of Insect Oddities (1938)
A world survey of the insect kingdom.
Buttons (1938)
After experiencing a tough neighborhood growing up, an alley cat finally finds a home.
Read online at archive.org
Stories from the Old Testament: Joseph, Moses, Ruth, David (1938)
Four favorite Old Testament stories of the Patriarchs.
Read online at archive.org.
Miska Petersham
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Miska Petersham
Sharp Ears, the Baby Whale (1938)
The story of a baby whale.
The Young Brontës: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne (1938)
A history of the Brontë siblings between 1825 and 1830.
The Singing Tree (1939)
Jancsi and Kate must manage the ranch when the Good Master is called up to fight in World War I.
Read online at archive.org.
Manuela’s Birthday (1939)
Manuela has a special fifth birthday.
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.