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Nature - Birds Genre

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Books in the Nature - Birds genre:

Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)

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

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Let Them Live (1951)

Discusses the effect of development on wildlife habitat.

Author(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Our Friendly Friends (1951)

Verses about our animal friends.

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures (1952)

A collection of stories about Doctor Dolittle and his animal friends.

Read online at archive.org

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

Freddy the Pilot (1952)

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

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Giant Nature Library (1952)

Six volumes from the First Book series in one, including: The First Book of Bees, The First Book of Birds, The First Book of Bugs, The First Book of Plants and The First Book of Trees.... View More

Author(s): Albert B. Tibbets
Et al
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

King Penguin (1952)

The story of a young man who goes to sea and is marooned on an island of penguins.

Author(s): Richard H. Horne
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Animals of Farmer Jones (1953)

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

Read online at archive.org

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

A Child’s First Book of Nature Adventures (1953)

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

The Duck (1953)

The duck tries life in the zoo, but decides the seaside is the place for him.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Ylla

Freddy and the Space Ship (1953)

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

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Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Friendly Phoebe (1953)

A couple find a baby phoebe in their yard and raise it ‘by hand’ until it is ready to fly away on its own.

Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)

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

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

Ernest Thompson Seton’s America (1954)

An anthology of the writings of Ernest Thompson Seton, British-Canadian-American naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

The First Book of Prehistoric Animals (1954)

A primer on ancient animals.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Alice Dickinson
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Freddy and the Men from Mars (1954)

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

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

From Then to Now (1954)

A look at prehistoric life for young readers.

Author(s): J. P. Leventhal
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

John James Audubon (1954)

A biography of the great painter of American birds for young people.

The Lively Little Rabbit (1954)

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.

Author(s): Ariane
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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