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Nature - Mammals Genre

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Books in the Nature - Mammals genre:

Baby Animals (1941)

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Children love to play with baby animals.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Mary Cameron

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Freddy and the Ignormus (1941)

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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

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

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The Polite Penguin (1941)

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When a raccoon tries to teach a penguin manners, anything can happen.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

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The Poodle and the Sheep (1941)

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Poodle won’t leave the sheep alone so he ends up in dog jail.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Leonard Weisgard

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A Squirrel Called Rufus (1941)

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As all poets tend toward epic, Richard Church gives us the epic battle between the red squirrels and the grey. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Richard Church
Illustrator(s): John Skeaping

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True Monkey Stories (1941)

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Mostly true stories about monkeys.

Author(s): Frances Margaret Fox
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

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Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys (1942)

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Cecily giraffe wants some one to play with and Curious George (in his first book) and his eight friends are happy to oblige. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): H. A. Rey
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

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The Elephant’s Child and Other Just-So Stories (1942)

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An omnibus edition containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
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Four Famous Just So Stories (1942)

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A boxed set containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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Freddy and the Perilous Adventure (1942)

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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

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

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How the Camel Got His Hump (1942)

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At the beginning, the camel refused to work for the first three days, so the Djinn gave him a hump, and now he can work three days without resting. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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How the Leopard Got His Spots (1942)

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At the beginning of things, the leopard and the Ethiopian change their colors to camouflage. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)

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After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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The Merry Shipwreck (1942)

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While Captain Barnacle is away, the mice set his barge adrift. Read online at archive.org.  This is the later edition. ... View More

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

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Nibs: The Orphan Deer of the Adirondacks (1942)

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An orphaned deer and his human friend.

Author(s): Don Lang
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Night and Day (1942)

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There were once two cats, one white and one black - one who loved the day and one who loved the night. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Leonard Weisgard

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The Poky Little Puppy (1942)

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The adventures of the little puppy who escapes under the fence has proven to be one of the most popular books ever published with over fifteen million copies produced. The first edition is considerably longer than subsequent editions.  The versi... View More

Author(s): Janette Sebring Lowrey
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1942)

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This second edition has fewer pages and fewer illustrations to this story of an Indian elephant whose curiosity takes him to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.

Author(s): Madge A. Bigham
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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The Story of Pancho and the Bull with the Crooked Tail (1942)

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Pancho captures the wild bull with the crooked tail and earns the reward of a silver mounted saddle, a purse of gold, and the biggest hat in all Mexico.

Author(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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Sweeney’s Adventure (1942)

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

Author(s): Joseph Krumgold
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

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