1940s - ALA Notable Books for Children - Handy Topics in the Curriculum Department - Research Guides at University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK)

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Please note: if a title is not linked, it means that we currently do not have it in our collection. Please check the Kearney Public Library or consider ordering it from Interlibrary Loan

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ALA Notable Children's Books of 1949

The bells of Bleecker Street
Tree of freedom
The blue cat of Castle Town
The wild birthday cake
George Washington
Vison, the mink
Little boy brown
America's Ethan Allen
Kildee house
Song of the swallows
The treasure of Li-Po
Moses
Great-grandfather in the honey tree
The white ring

ALA Notable Children's Books of 1948

An inheritance of poetry
Story of the Negro
Note: we do have the 5th edition
Grandfather tales; American-English folk tales
My father's dragon
My father's dragon
My father's dragon
Vulpes the red fox
The dolls' house
King of the Wind
Seabird
Blueberries for Sal
All around the town
Daughter of the mountains
American folk songs for children in home, school and nursery school : a book for children, parents and teachers
The Chestry oak
In Norway

ALA Notable Children's Books of 1947

The quaint and curious quest of Johnny Longfoot : the shoe king's son
Pancakes-Paris
The cow-tail switch, and other West African stories
Roger and the fox
The twenty-one balloons
McElligot's pool
The little white horse
Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin
Judy's journey
Song of Robin Hood
The great heritage
Li Lun, lad of courage

ALA Notable Children's Books of 1946

ALA Notable Children's Books 1945

None shall know
Nightingale, the story of an American army nurse
Party line
We stand united, and other radio scripts
We have tomorrow
Cocks and bulls in Caracas; how we live in Venezuela
Rooster crows for day
Time to be young; great stories of the growing years
The black rose
The Cherokee strip, a tale of an Oklahoma boyhood
These are the Russians
Let us consider one another
Connie Mack : grand old man of baseball
Up front
Brave nurse
Home to India
Chucklebait: funny stories for everyone
Captain from Castile
Silver sides
City of Lincoln
Robinson Crusoe, USN; the adventures of George R. Tweed, RM1C, on Jap-held Guam
I remember mama
My Indian family
The best from Yank, the army weekly

ALA Notable Children's Books 1944

The first woman doctor : the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.
Note: we do have the 1971 edition
America
Avalanche
A walk in the sun
Your world tomorrow
I wanted to see
This is it!
13 against the odds
McGraw of the Giants
Dr. George Washington Carver, scientist
I never left home
Rockets: the future of travel beyond the stratosphere
The wounded get back
Long trains roll
The broken arc
The sword is drawn
Pastoral
High tide at noon
The curtain rises
AWOL, K-9 commando
Courtesy, a book of modern manners
They shall not sleep
Rookie of the year
Note: we do have the 1987 edition
Winter wheat
Young men and machines; career guidance for the machine tool and mass production industries

ALA Notable Children's Books 1943

The forest and the fort
Under a lucky star
Malta epic
Western star
Barrie and daughter
Mr. Lincoln's wife
Journey among warriors
Stories from the great Metropolitan operas
The story of George Gershwin
Garden islands of the great East: collecting seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the junk "Chêng ho"
Inside the F.B.I.
Johnny Tremain, a novel for old & young
Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain : a story of Boston in revolt
75th Anniversary Edition
Mama's bank account
The ship
Come in
The shining trail
Three times I bow
Fireside book of dog stories
Into the valley
Take 'er you up alone, mister!
George Washington Carver
The bayous of Louisiana
And they shall walk; the life story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Thirty seconds over Tokyo
Note: we do have the 1953 edition
Teresita of the valley
Doctors aweigh
O river, remember!
Journey into America
Here is your war
I served on Bataan
Seven came through: Rickenbacker's full story
Syrian Yankee
Mother America, a living story of democracy
Harriet, a play in three acts
The little prince
The little prince
2013 edition
The little prince
75th anniversary edition
The human comedy
Note: we do have the revised edition
Enemy brothers
God is my co-pilot
Burma surgeon
Paris-underground
C/o postmaster
Thunderhead : a novel
Dune boy
Guadalcanal diary
Keystone kids
Note: we do have the 1987 edition
Spanish lady
Queens die proudly
One world

ALA Notable Children's Books 1942

No surrender
The lieutenant's lady
Army flyer
Juárez, hero of Mexico
Inside Benchley
Meet me in St. Louis
Stories of school and college life; September to June
Golden fleece
Look to the mountain
Seventeenth summer
Gay design
Victory through air power
The days of Ofelia
Young Ames
Getting them into the blue
Lou Gehrig, a quiet hero
Destination Chungking
See here, Private Hargrove
Let's cook; a cookbook for beginners of all ages
Miss Bronska
Falling through space
Queen of the flat-tops; the U.S.S. Lexington and the Coral Sea battle
Dixie decides; a modern story of a girl in the Great Smokies
Leonardo, master of the renaissance
The uninvited
Manners for moderns
Youth must fly; gliding and soaring for America
Assignment in Brittany
Note: this is part of the Assignment: suspense omnibus
West with the night
None but the brave, a story of Holland
Big Doc's girl
Northern nurse
Sea-gull cry
Vagabond in velvet : the story of Miguel de Cervantes
Pied piper
The world at my finger tips
Wilder wings
Night boat, and other Tad Moran mysteries
Forward the nation
Women with wings
Cross Creek
We took to the woods
Fighting fleets
Family album
Flight to Arras
Hill lawyer
Our hearts were young and gay
Get thee behind me; my life as a preacher's son
Bombs away
The moon is down, a novel
We live to be free
Near horizons, the story of an insect garden
Invitation to dance
The blueberry muffin
The raft
All-American
The day must dawn
Happy times in Norway
The song of Bernadette
The flying tigers
Shooting the Russian war
They were expendable
A star for Ginny
They loved to laugh
House for the sparrow
Parachutes
Submarines

ALA Notable Children's Books 1941

The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world
The camp at Westlands
She's off to work; a guide for successful earning and living
Finlandia; the story of Sibelius
Winged warfare
R.A.F.; the story of a British fighter pilot
Windswept
No life for a lady
A toast to tomorrow
Our new music; leading composers in Europe and America
Note: we do have the Revised and enlarged edition
Looking for trouble
Walt Whitman : builder for America
Tally-ho! Yankee in a Spitfire
Narcissa Whitman, pioneer of Oregon
Captain Paul
Haym Salomon : son of liberty
Aviation from shop to sky
The captain from Connecticut
Shake hands with the dragon
Inside Latin America
The Soong sisters
The American primer
Watch on the Rhine, a play in three acts
Random harvest
Four years in paradise
Dawn over Chungking
Above suspicion
Note: this book is part of the Assignment Suspense omnibus
They went on together
Botany Bay
My friend Flicka
My friend Flicka
The black tanker: the adventures of a landlubber on the ill-fated last voyage of the oil tank steamer "Zambora"
Action stations!
The poetry of flight
Here we are; stories from Scholastic magazine
Berlin diary; the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
Lady editor
Magic in a bottle
Storm
Note: this is the 1983 edition, with a different forward than the first edition
No other road to freedom
World series
Streamline your dancing
Lost worlds : the romance of archaeology
Also published under the title "Lost worlds; adventures in archaeology"
Jennifer
A place for Ann
Young man of Caracas

ALA Notable Children's Books 1940

The wilderness lives again; Carl Akeley and the great adventure
This amazing planet
My ten years in the studios
Test tubes and dragon scales
Introducing Charles Dickens
My life in a man-made jungle
Mighty mountain
Career clinic: the answer to your job problem
Big river to cross; Mississippi life today
Men of power: a book of dictators
The family
The loon feather
The bird in the tree
The fair adventure
Nansen
The iron doctor: a story of deep-water diving
Their own country
Country editor
Attack!
I married adventure; the lives and adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson
Lassie come-home
Lassie come-home
A smattering of ignorance
Mrs. Miniver
Clear for action!
Call of the mountain
Why Europe fights
Portrait of Jennie
A winter tide; sonnets & poems
An old captivity
Roundabout South America
Three's a crew
When the whippoorwill
The trees
Cues for you
There shall be no night
Hill doctor
The white isle
Choosing a college
The kid from Tomkinsville
On safari
The hill is mine
Wild geese calling
Big Knife, the story of George Rogers Clark
Young Hickory, a story of the frontier boyhood and youth of Andrew Jackson