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Nature - Insects Genre
Books in the Nature - Insects genre:
Wide Wonderful World (1958)
An anthology of stories and poems about the world we live in for younger children.
Best In Children’s Books Volume 17 (1959)
The Cricket in Times Square (1960)
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Mr. Spindles and the Spiders (1961)
Mr. Spindles is appalled when he finds spiders in his cupboards, but he learns to live and let live.
Author(s):
Andrew Packard
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales (1964)
A collection of traditional African tales about the trickster spider.
Author(s):
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Land of Right Up and Down (1964)
Author(s):
Eva-Lis Wuorio
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Oscar Lobster’s Fair Exchange (1966)
Oscar and his friends decide if the humans can collect shells, they can collect human artefacts.
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Peter Lippman
Be Nice to Spiders (1967)
When Billy donates his spider, Helen, to the zoo she soon has all the animals happy again.
Author(s):
Margaret Bloy Graham
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Bloy Graham
Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury (1967)
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
Let’s Learn About Silk (1967)
The story of the making of silk.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
James E. Barry
A Crowd of Cows (1968)
What do you call a group of whales? . . . kittens? . . . pigs?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Graham
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Phoebe and the Prince (1969)
Phoebe meets a flea who has dined on royalty.
Author(s):
Doris Orgel
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Tucker’s Countryside (1969)
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
More Adventures of Spider (1971)
More tales of the trickster spider of West Africa.
Author(s):
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Snail and Caterpillar (1972)
When Snail learns that her friend Caterpillar and her cabbage house have been taken to market she sets out to rescue them.
Author(s):
Helen Piers
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Butterfly (1974)
An illustrated natural history of the life cycle of the butterfly.
Author(s):
Claude Nicolas
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Come Away (1974)
Mark and Alice explore nature.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Myra Cohn Livingston
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
The Mushroom Center Disaster (1974)
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad