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Nature - Amphibians and Reptiles Genre

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Books in the Nature - Amphibians and Reptiles genre:

The Cow Went Over the Mountain (1963)

The little heifer leads the animals to greener pastures on the neighboring mountain, only to find the greener pastures were on their own mountain. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Jeanette Krinsley
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Snake in the Carpool (1963)

When Betsy’s snake escapes, it ends up in a boy’s birthday present box. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Miriam Schlein
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

Tortoise and Turtle Abroad (1963)

Tortoise and Turtle take a journey before turning in for the winter.

Author(s): Evelyn Gendel
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Cypress Country (1965)

An illustrated look at the plant and animal life in the great southern cypress swamps.

Author(s): Marjorie Bartlett Sanger
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

The Traveling Frog (1966)

A fat speckled frog tries to hitch a ride with the ducks to the warm south.

Author(s): Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Doctor Dolittle Boxed Set (1967)

Includes Doctor Dolittle’s Circus, Zoo, Caravan, Garden, In the Moon, Return.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

A Crowd of Cows (1968)

What do you call a group of whales? . . . kittens? . . . pigs?

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): John Graham
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)

Surely the largest, most inclusive animal picture book of them all.

Author(s): Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Gobble, Growl, Grunt (1971)

A book of animal sounds.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

The Frog (1974)

An illustrated look at the always fascinating life cycle of the frog.

Author(s): Claude Nicolas
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Noah’s Ark (1977)

Peter Spier tells the story in pictures of Noah, the Ark and the Flood.

Author(s): Jacobus Revius
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal - 1978

Frog and Water Shrew (1981)

When their pond dries up, the water shrew and her children set off to follow the frog to the stream, but does he know the way?

Author(s): Helen Piers
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Ten-Alarm Camp-Out (1983)

A family of ten armadillos go camping and cause quite a ruckus.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Cathy Warren
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (1987)

Anna explores the garden and plays in the pond with the frogs.

Author(s): Nancy White Carlstrom
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion (1989)

Rabbit steals the honey from the bee tree under the lion’s nose.

Author(s): Verna Aardema
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Turtle in July (1989)

A different animal for every month of the year.

Author(s): Marilyn Singer
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Old Mother West Wind (1990)

Stories of the inhabitants of the green meadows, woods and streams.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Jungle Book (1992)

These stories from the two Jungle Books tell the adventures of Mowgli.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

The Naming (1993)

In the beginning the animals come to Adam to be named.

Author(s): Margaret Greaves
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Old Mill (1994)

Adapted from the Disney short feature which was the first to be filmed on the multiplane camera. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Philippe Harchy

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