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Nature - Mammals Genre

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Books in the Nature - Mammals genre:

Cypress Country (1965)

An illustrated look at the plant and animal life in the great southern cypress swamps.

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

Hop, Little Kangaroo (1965)

The little kangaroo’s mother leaves him to come home on his own and he has to learn to hop. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Horse that Swam Away (1965)

A boy and his horse befriend a porpoise.

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Author(s): Walter Farley
Illustrator(s): Leo Summers

The Valiant Chattee-Maker (1965)

In this Indian folk tale, a pottery-maker captures a tiger in a drunken rage and is made commander of the Rajah's army where he singlehandedly puts to flight an invading army.

Author(s): Christine Price
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Whaler ’Round the Horn (1965)

Rodney Glenn hitches a ride to New Bedford to sign on with a whalerman and sets out for the south seas and a rendezvous with a certain white whale.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Yasu and the Strangers (1965)

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.

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

Bruin the Brown Bear (1966)

Twin bear cubs learn the business of being a bear from their mother and older brother.

Author(s): Lily Duplaix
Lida
Illustrator(s): Rojan

Christmas Bear (1966)

Mishka, the stuffed bear, gives himself to a sick little boy on Christmas.

Author(s): Marie Colmont
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Emily’s Voyage (1966)

Miss Emily Guinea-Pig sets out on a sea voyage with a crew of seasick rabbits.

Author(s): Emma Smith
Illustrator(s): Irene Haas

The Great Dane Thor (1966)

Lars learns what it means to be responsible, and what it means to have a dog as a pet.

Author(s): Walter Farley
Illustrator(s): Joseph Cellini

Spiky the Hedgehog (1966)

A young hedgehog goes adventuring and is kidnapped by gypsies, but eventually escapes and returns home.

Author(s): Lida
Illustrator(s): Rojan

Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury (1967)

This collection of chapters from the Doctor Dolittle series includes many illustrations by the author which were not used in the original publications. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars (1967)

The elephant liked to smash small cars - big cars, not so much.

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Author(s): Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s): Ronni Solbert

Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep (1967)

Rhyming verse explains that everything has to sleep sometime.

Author(s): Harold J. Saleh
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

I Am a Fox (1967)

A little fox introduces his family and neighbors.

Author(s): Ole Risom
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Three Bears (1967)

A new retelling of this favorite story.

A Crowd of Cows (1968)

What do you call a group of whales? . . . kittens? . . . pigs?

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Author(s): John Graham
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Cora Annett’s Homerhenry (1969)

A tailor and a shoemaker dress up as a horse out of work.

Author(s): Cora Annett
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Emily’s Moo (1969)

Emily knows that cows say moo, but she has never learned how.

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

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