When Mazie asks Horton to keep her egg warm, he did not expect that she wasn’t coming back. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

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

An orphaned deer and his human friend.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Jerry and Les lease their pet goat John Paul Jones to the U.S. Navy for the duration. Letters from servicemen chronicle his adventures on sea and land as he helps defeat the Japanese. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The two hippos at the zoo have a falling out. Can the townspeople get them back together again? Read online at archive.org.... View More

Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

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The little trapper gets trapped.

Verses about our animal friends.

An inquisitive little rabbit named Edward and his friends Hoppy Toad and Joe Possum learn about automobiles, canoeing, roller skating, the circus and other things important to the safety and pleasure of growing animals.

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

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Bo the elephant gets separated from the Barton and Carlin Circus, but manages to find his way back in time for the grand entrance parade.

Danny Beaver prepares a surprise for his friends.

Julie’s father says no pets, but Julie goes ahead and buys a two-toed sloth named Sampson and soon discovers she can’t keep him a secret. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

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The hard winter that Uncle Analdas, the old rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for Little Georgie and the other animals of Rabbit Hill when the Folks go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge. This is the ... View More

The legend of the little bear who went on to become a spokesman for the National Forests.

Selections from the humorous sporting novel Handley Cross.

This collection of piglets and kittens, calves and bunnies is a longtime favorite. Garth Williams illustrates them with warmth and humor and realism. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Hendrika the cow is bored. When she falls into the canal, she climbs onto a scow and floats down to the city.

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

Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.

Olga the owl cannot get to sleep. She asks all the other birds and animals but nothing works, until at last the thrush explains the secret to her.

Clarence is not piggish, but after a time he wearies of his television show and just wants to be a pig.

Poems about animals.

A mountain goat and a lamb trade places for a day, but find themselves out of place and are happy to return home.

The fox stole two of the farmer’s geese to feed his family.

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A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.

Alfredo and Gina do everything they can think of to cheer up the little pony, but nothing works, until Alfredo has a brilliant idea.

Nicholas bunny describes the seasons of the year.

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The rooster struts, the lion leaps ...

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Sham Babu discovers his little pet goat will dance to the tunes of his pipes.

Colette and her kitten Chou Chou save the people of Grasse from the caprice of the Princess Pauline.

Yasu is on a school trip to the temple of Nara in Japan when he finds a fawn and two American tourists who are lost.

A book of animal sounds.

Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants--four-legged and otherwise--with the world’s best-loved animal doctor.

Ronald decides to stay up all winter and finish reading the encyclopedia to prove he is better than his brother Oliver. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Peter Spier tells the story in pictures of Noah, the Ark and the Flood.

How do we know when to wake up? How do flowers know when to bloom? This book explores the biorhythms of living things. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A young girl and her cat go hunting for elephants in the garage.

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Bramble Beaver helps the forest animals harvest the mast crop on Pine Cone Island.

Sally accompanies her mother and the baby to the grocery store.

Harry and Jane go to the Pet Store, but just to visit.

Should she stay? Should she go?

Mr. Fox goes hunting with his bag … but the bag ends up hunting him.

“Give a dog a bone” goes the old nursery rhyme. When you have a big dog, you need a big bone. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The rabbits of Sandleford Warren set out to find a new home on Watership Down. This edition includes maps drawn by Pauline Baynes. The cover art was first used for the 1973 Puffin edition. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When the mouldy invades the great garden of the world, the Princess Talitha sets out to defeat him, but the hedgehog wins him. Read online at archive.org.  ... View More

A family of ten armadillos go camping and cause quite a ruckus.

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Five little kittens. When they are not eating … they sleep. All day.

Six puppies are born and grow up in a hurry.

Five little rabbits play -- and eat -- in the garden.

One night as he was fast asleep, Nathan heard something in his toy chest …

A squirrel bakes a chocolate cake.

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An otter goes fishing.

Lloyd the llama asks his friends about their mothers.

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Stories of the inhabitants of the green meadows, woods and streams.

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Ginger Paw just wants to play with Mrs. Thumb and her doll house.

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On the second Thursday of every month, the official town burglars carry out a daring daylight burglary to give the Foxbury Police Force practice in capturing burglars, until one day things do not go as planned. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Young Bo the armadillo follows his new friend to the rodeo and has a wonderful time -- until Ma comes to bring him home. Read online at archive.org.... View More

A collection of Pig Poems illustrated by Steven Kellogg.

This is the story of how Dr. Dolittle learned to speak with the animals and went to Africa to cure the monkeys. In this special edition, some language which was considered offensive has been altered to be more in keeping with the author’s inten... View More

A collection of poems, stories, facts, and illustrations about all kinds of cats.

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A cat, a squirrel and a duck live deep in the woods in an old white cabin where they dine every day on pumpkin soup, until one day …

Once there were four bunnies, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. Peter disobeys his mother and goes into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Many curious facts about cats selected from The Necessary Cat.

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The Honey Guide Bird finds the honey and the Honey Badger steals it -- then they share the sweetness. But one day the Badger doesn’t share, and then the next day … watch out for lions! Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

A cat, a squirrel, a duck, pumpkin soup, but not salt … and pepper?

The shy young moose uses Professor McFowl’s invisibility potion to rescue his beloved from captivity. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The three Dassies build houses of grass, sticks and stones. Then the Eagle comes calling.

A mouse journeys to see the largest creature, picking up other curious animals along the way.

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