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Nature - Birds Genre

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Books in the Nature - Birds genre:

My Brother Bird (1954)

The Bennett family welcomes a pigeon into their midst.

Author(s): Evelyn Ames
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Off to Bed: Seven Stories for Wide-Awakes (1954)

Short animal bed time stories.

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Wheel on the Chimney (1954)

The story of a family of storks as they migrate from Africa to Hungary to raise their brood, then return in the fall.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1955

Wish on the Moon (1954)

The animals help Mrs. McGinty with her garden and there is enough for all.

The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (1955)

When twins Joan and Joey Brown discover George, the shy stegosaurus, he helps them save their mother’s ranch.

Author(s): Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s): Herbert Buel

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1955

The Tale of the Faithful Dove (1955)

A dove is chased into a chimney by a hawk and trapped there until a friendly mouse comes to her aid. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Freddy and Simon the Dictator (1956)

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.

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

The Runaways: A Tale of the Woodlands (1956)

The woodland animals move to new homes when the bulldozers arrive.

Elisabeth and the Marsh Mystery (1957)

Elisabeth and her friends are determined to find out what is making a mysterious noise in the neighboring marsh. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Felice Holman
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

Everglades Adventure (1957)

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

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

Falconer’s Lure (1957)

The Marlows inherit Trennels Old Farm and move to the country where they spend the summer holidays.

Author(s): Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s): Tasha Kallin

Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans (1957)

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

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

The Late Spring (1957)

A robin returning from Florida, finds he has arrived before spring.

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Author(s): Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

Melvin the Moose Child (1957)

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

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

The Dead Bird (1958)

A group of children bury a dead bird in the forest.

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Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Remy Charlip

The Deep Blue Sea (1958)

An introduction to oceanography.

Freddy and the Dragon (1958)

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

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

Greenwood Summer (1958)

Jenny and Brian spend the summer in a nature camp, chiefly learning about birds.

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

Pinky Pye (1958)

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

Author(s): Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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