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Books in the Nature - Mammals genre:

Tit for Tat (1942)

What if the animals could treat us as we treat them?

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

Freddy and the Bean Home News (1943)

Freddy starts the animals’ own newspaper The Bean Home News and gets involved in the notorious affair of the cast iron deer.

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

Little Chicken: a Story (1943)

When his friend rabbit goes for a run, the little chick looks for another playmate.

Read online at archive.org. 

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

The Lively Little Rabbit (1943)

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. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Midnight and Jeremiah (1943)

Jeremiah raises Midnight, a black lamb to compete at the county fair. This book was made into a movie So Dear to My Heart in 1949.

Author(s): Sterling North
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1943

The Mighty Hunter (1943)

The mighty hunter skips school to go hunting, but an encounter with a bear makes him decide that he should work on his education.

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1944

The Missouri Canary (1943)

Chuck and Bob come to the aid of the U.S. Army with their mule, the Missouri Canary.

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Peewee the Mousedeer (1943)

The story of one of the smallest inhabitants of the jungle.

Author(s): Hendrik De Leeuw
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Puppies for Keeps (1943)

A picture book about the adventures of four Pekingese puppies.

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

Twenty Little Pets from Everywhere (1943)

A selection of exotic pets.

Author(s): Raymond L. Ditmars
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

Where’s My Baby? (1943)

Pictures of animals and their babies.

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

Animal Stories (1944)

Forty-six original stories featuring our animal friends. Some editions have only thirty-six stories.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Animal Stories #8008 (1944)

Original stories featuring our animal friends. This is a later edition with about half as many stories. It is a Big not a Giant Little Golden Book.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Big Brown Bear (1944)

The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Feed the Animals (1944)

Lift the flap to see which animal the keeper will feed next.

Read online at archive.org

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

The Friendly Animals (1944)

Animals are our friends and we should treat them with kindness.

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

Katy No-Pocket (1944)

Katy the kangaroo has no pocket for her baby so she goes to the big city to find one.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)

A shepherd boy hides the village flocks from marauding Nazis.

Author(s): Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Pretzel (1944)

Pretzel is a very looong weiner dog - which sometimes is a disadvantage and sometimes a distinct advantage.

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

Rabbit Hill (1944)

Little Georgie and his friends welcome the New Folks to Rabbit Hill. As a wartime book, the paper is thinner and not as white as Lawson would have preferred. Nevertheless, the paper of the first printing is slightly heavier than that of subsequent wa... View More

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1945
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

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