Juvenile at Troynovant:
dawns of adventure & science fiction,
designed for a younger audience of readers & viewers;
listed by Title
Note that we are not captivated by labels and categories as may be applied in school libraries and chain bookstores. We here speak of books, stories, and films designed for an audience of teenagers or pre-teens, or particularly enjoyable by these. We are flexible, and our purpose is not to enshrine definitions but to gather works aimed at a younger audience, or particularly enjoyable by them
Generally the themes and main characters are of a pre-romantic youthfulness, though they may touch the fringes of Romance: thus we do not list below Romeo and Juliet. — Some series straddle our upper threshold: this stratum includes Tolkien's The Hobbit but not its sequel The Lord of the Rings; includes Schmitz's "Novice" but not its direct sequel "Undercurrents" or the rest of the Telzey Amberdon series.
| Absent-Minded Professor, The | Robert Stevenson / Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn | RW Franson |
| Between Planets | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Chip, the Dam Builder | Jim Kjelgaard | RW Franson |
| Citizen of the Galaxy | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Death is Wrong | Gennady Stolyarov II | RW Franson |
| Derby Day | Hal Roach / Our Gang | RW Franson |
| Donald's Ostrich (Donald Duck) | Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Four-Day Planet | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Pig series | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy and the Bean Home News | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy and the Ignormus | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Cowboy | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Pilot | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Politician | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Freddy's Cousin Weedly | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Have Space Suit — Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| How to Govern a Kingdom | Suzie Garfield | RW Franson |
| Iceworld | Hal Clement | RW Franson |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | C Kalescky |
| Lost Prince, The | Frances Hodgson Burnett | JM Franson |
| Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens / Abe Levitow / Jim Backus | JM Franson |
| Novice | James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Olympic Champ, The (Goofy) | Disney / Kinney | RW Franson |
| Penrod: His Complete Story | Booth Tarkington | RW Franson |
| Rocket Ship Galileo | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Rolling Stones, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Sargasso of Space | Andre Norton | RW Franson |
| Slan | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Snow Dog | Jim Kjelgaard | DH Franson |
| Space Cadet | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Star Beast, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Sue Barton, Nurse series | Helen Dore Boylston | WH Stoddard |
| Vanishing Private, The (Donald Duck) | Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | RW Franson |
[The King of Navarre's park.]
[Enter Armado the braggart, and Mote his boy]
Armado:
The way is but short. Away!Mote:
As swift as lead, sir.Armado:
The meaning, pretty ingenious?
Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?...
Mote:
You are too swift, sir, to say so.
Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?Armado:
Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
He reputes me a cannon, and the bullet, that's he.
I shoot thee at the swain.Mote:
Thump, then, and I flee. [Exit]Armado:
A most acute juvenal — voluble, and free of grace.William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost, 3.1.47-58(voluble means quick-witted, as youth always is —
ask any one.)
"The Saw-Horse rocked and rolled over the fields" by John R. Neill
for The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1904)
at Old Book Art
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