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Books in the Nature - Birds genre:

The Shoe Bird (1964)

A parrot's repetitions result in chaos.

Author(s): Eudora Alice Welty
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush

We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up (1964)

Walter seeks advice on his future career, but doesn’t like it.

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

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

Dinosaurs (1965)

An animal picture book with science activities.

Author(s): Bertha Morris Parker
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

My Book of Birds (1965)

Pictures of parrots and other exotic birds with a short description.

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Author(s): Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Parrot Book: Parrots and Other Exotic Birds (1965)

This is the original Golden Shape Book version of this book about parrots and other exotic birds.

Author(s): Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Sparrow Socks (1965)

The McFee brothers need work and the sparrows need socks - so they get to work and soon not only the sparrows have socks, but the whole town does as well.

Author(s): George Selden
Illustrator(s): Peter Lippman

The Thuggery Affair (1965)

Peter Marlow and Patrick Merrick get on the track of a gang of drug runners.

Author(s): Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s): Charles Mozley

Two Is Company, Three’s a Crowd: A Wild Goose Tale (1965)

A pair of geese on their spring migration are helped by a human couple and decide to stay and raise their family.

Ploof, the Little Wild Duck (1966)

The story of a duck from his hatching to fall migration.

Author(s): Lida
Illustrator(s): Rojan

Topsail Island Treasure (1966)

Don Douglas lives with his parents on Topsail Island, a state park where his father is superintendent. Visitors like to look for Captain Kidd’s treasure, but Don knows he has already found the Topsail Island treasure.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Marbury Brown

Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury (1967)

This collection of chapters from the Doctor Dolittle series includes many illustrations by the author which were not used in the original publications. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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

Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep (1967)

Rhyming verse explains that everything has to sleep sometime.

Author(s): Harold J. Saleh
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

The Happy Egg (1967)

The egg gets sat on and sat on and sat on in this early reader.

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Author(s): Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

Richard Scarry’s Egg in the Hole Book (1967)

Help Henny find her lost egg.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Chicken Ten Thousand (1968)

Chicken ten thousand seems doomed to life in a factory farm, but by chance finds herself in the real world.

Author(s): Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s): Barbara Morrow

A Crowd of Cows (1968)

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

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

Kostas the Rooster (1968)

When Kostas the rooster oversleeps one morning and neglects to waken the village, he loses his confidence in his ability to ever get it right.

Author(s): Traudl
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Willie Was Different: The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling (1969)

The story of a thrush who was not content with his native song and became an artist.

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