No one has ever seen it, but everyone knows and fears the Ignormus living in the big woods. When things start to go missing from the Bean farm, Freddy finds the trail leads to an abandoned house - and the Ignormus. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Born in a titmouse’s nest, the cuckoo is too large to get through the opening, but Francis hears its cry and helps it out.

Emma and Alice the ducks accept Freddy’s invitation to a balloon ascension and find themselves drifting off over the countryside. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Sweeney decides to visit the Bronx zoo rather than have a talk with his father about a bonfire behind the couch.

Freddy starts the animals’ own newspaper The Bean Home News and gets involved in the notorious affair of the cast iron deer.

A collection of ten stories about birds.

The lively little rabbit makes a new friend who helps him escape from the weasel. The first edition is in color and black and white. Later editions were all in color but much shorter. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Forty-six original stories featuring our animal friends. Some editions have only thirty-six stories.

Animals are our friends and we should treat them with kindness.

Freddy and his friends are kept busy around the farm in this volume of the Bean farm animals saga. Read online at archive. org. ... View More

Stuart Little is only two inches tall, but he has great adventures.

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A hen goes all out for the War Production Board in World War II.

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When Mr. Boomschmidt’s circus falls on hard times, Freddy and his friends rally around so the show can go on. Read online at archive. org. ... View More

Freddy, that multi-talented pig, takes up stage magic and prestidigitation.

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The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Mr. Camphor is having aunt problems and calls on Freddy for help.

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The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Originally published as Wiggins for President. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track.

When their pond dries up, the animals of the forest go in search of water.

When Bixxy the carrier pigeon gets lost, the cub scouts come to his assistance.

In this, their first adventure, the animals of the Bean farm, Freddy, Charles, Jinx, Hank, Mrs. Wiggins and the rest travel to Florida for the winter. Originally published as To and Again. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Freddy goes to high school so he can play on the football team. Back at the farm he investigates Aaron Doty who claims to be Mrs. Bean’s brother. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

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The adventures of Danny and his pet dinosaur, Dinny.

Freddy and his friends start a successful animal tourism business but run into trouble on a trip to the North Pole to see Santa Claus, rescuing two children on the way. This book was originally published under the title More to and Again.... View More

Verses about our animal friends.

Mr. Boomschmidt’s Circus is threatened by a spurned suitor, but Freddy and his friends are there with the aid of their skunk and rabbit paratroops - and then there’s the Benjamin Bean Improved Self-Filling Piggy Bank. Read online at archi... View More

It’s the animals’ supper time, but here is Farmer Jones?

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Three stories, including Trouble at Beaver Dam illustrated by Rojankovsky.

Freddy and his friends take off in Uncle Ben’s space ship, but where did they land?

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Peter T. Hooper finds scrambled hen’s eggs too boring and goes on an exotic egg hunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Freddy hears that Herb Garble claims to have captured six Martians, he smells a rat - and the real Martians agree with him. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A look at prehistoric life for young readers.

The Bennett family welcomes a pigeon into their midst.

Simon the rat with the assistance of the all-around scoundrel Herb Garble foments an animal revolt, but Freddy and his friends with the assistance of the loyal dogs are on top of it.

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War and he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Foreign spies are falling all over themselves trying to steal the plans to Uncle Ben’s flying saucer. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Melvin the moose child sets out for the North Woods to find another moose child to play with. Along the way he meets a beaver child, a deer child and a bear child. Read online at archive.org.... View More

An introduction to oceanography.

Freddy and his friends help solve the crime wave in Centerboro.

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When the Pye family sets out for a summer of bird watching the little expect to end up with two new members. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Olga the owl cannot get to sleep. She asks all the other birds and animals but nothing works, until at last the thrush explains the secret to her.

Pictures and short descriptions of animals, familiar and not so very.

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A compendium of stories, poems and articles, many with new illustrations.

Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Gogo, the gourmet French seagull follows the Queen of France back and forth across the Atlantic.

Poems about animals.

An alphabet of zoo animals.

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Why doesn’t everyone have a tail?

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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

A collection of nature poems.

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An animal picture book with science activities.

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

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

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

Help Henny find her lost egg.

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

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

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

When Louis, a trumpeter swan is born, he is mute. This is the story of how he finds a voice, with the help of his friends and wins his true love.

A book of animal sounds.

The seals were basking when Lucas took his little sister Sara to the Seal Pool. Dr. Frederick Fluke, amateur zoologist explains that they are protecting their friend the Great Auk. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Mark and Alice explore nature.

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The seals were basking when Lucas took his little sister Sara to the Seal Pool. Dr. Frederick Fluke, amateur zoologist explains that they are protecting their friend the Great Auk.

An illustrated look at the life cycle of the duck.

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

Five short fables or stories about the natural world.

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How do we know when to wake up? How do flowers know when to bloom? This book explores the biorhythms of living things. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Harry and Jane go to the Pet Store, but just to visit.

Six ducks hatch out and go swimming.

These nine short stories were originally published in The Delineator magazine in 1905.

When the goose got loose, she caused a riot. Nobody ever thought she’d try it!

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

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

This is the story of how Dr. Dolittle learned to speak with the animals and went to Africa to cure the monkeys. In this special edition, some language which was considered offensive has been altered to be more in keeping with the author’s inten... View More

Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights.

Bess is feeling terribly lonely when out of the sky tumbles a bird named Bella.

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The Honey Guide Bird finds the honey and the Honey Badger steals it -- then they share the sweetness. But one day the Badger doesn’t share, and then the next day … watch out for lions! Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War where he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Twenty beasts, real and mythical, from medieval bestiaries are illustrated.

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