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Junior Library Guild

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American book club devoted to juvenile literature

Junior Library Guild, formerly the Junior Literary Guild, is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. It was created in 1929 as one of the enterprises of the Literary Guild, an adult book club created in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzburg. Book clubs often marketed books to libraries as well, and by the 1950s the majority of the Junior Literary Guild's sales were to libraries.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1929Founded1

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Junior Library Guild, formerly the Junior Literary Guild, is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. It was created in 1929 as one of the enterprises of the Literary Guild, an adult book club created in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzburg. Book clubs often marketed books to libraries as well, and by the 1950s the majority of the Junior Literary Guild's sales were to libraries. In 1988, the name was changed to the Junior Library Guild to reflect this change in the company's business.2

The story

2004 selection

In 2004 the Junior Library Guild posted a webpage indicating four classics of children's literature that had been Junior Literary Guild selections. They were:

Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey

Horton Hears a Who!, by Dr. Seuss

Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg.

Another book published by the Guild was All Aboard We Are Off, Nura (1944).

2006 selection

Free Baseball

From Wikipedia’s article on Junior Library Guild, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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