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Books in the Nature - Birds genre:

The Natural History of the Ten Commandments (1907)

The author finds that the animal kingdom respects the natural law. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): None

Tales and Talks About Animals (1907)

A collection of simple stories with colored pictures by several different hands.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)

Jemima is looking for a place to hide her nest and a cunning fox offers her his shed and bids fair to eat her until Kep the farm dog intervenes. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

A Handbook to Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba (1909)

This handbook was prepared for the 79th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. One chapter is by Seton. It is called Fauna of Manitoba. Read this book for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Chicken World (1910)

The story of an old black hen who hatches her brood - including two ducks - and teaches them what they need to know. Read for free online at the Brooklyn Public Library.... View More

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

Junior Classics Volume 8 (1912)

Short accounts of our animal friends, both true and fictitious for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

The Legend of the White Reindeer (1915)

Animal biographies from Animal Heroes, including Arnaux The Chronicle of a Homing Pigeon, The Boy and the Lynx and The Legend of the White Reindeer.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)

The story of how Doctor Dolittle learned to speak with the animals and became the animals’ doctor. Read online at archive.org.

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

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)

In search of Long Arrow the Indian, Doctor Dolittle and his companions journey to the floating Spidermonkey Island. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1923

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923)

Doctor Dolittle discovers that animals also have a written form of their language and goes about setting up the fastest postal service in the world for them. Read online at archive org..... View More

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

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus (1924)

Concerned by the abuse of animals in the circus, Doctor Dolittle decides to start his own to show how good a circus could be if the animals were in charge. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

Johnny Bear and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted (1924)

Includes Johnny Bear, Tito, and Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo (1925)

In these adventures the good Doctor solves a mystery and opens a zoo in his back garden.

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

The Ten Commandments in the Animal World (1925)

The author finds that animals respect the natural law.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan (1926)

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus travels to London where they stage a bird opera.

Read online at archive.org.

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

Chicken Little and The Little Half Chick (1927)

The familiar story of Chicken-Little’s mission to tell the king the sky is falling, along with the story of how the cock got on the weather vane.

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden (1927)

Doctor Dolittle continues his researches into the lives of animals and learns the languages of insects. He is visited by a giant moth and embarks on a journey to the moon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

To and Again (1927)

In this, their first adventure, the animals of the Bean farm, Freddy, Charles, Jinx, Hank, Mrs.Wiggins, and the rest go to Florida for the winter. Later republished as Freddy Goes to Florida and re-illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Read online at archive.or... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Adolfo Best-Maugard

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