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Nature - Mammals Genre

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Books in the Nature - Mammals genre:

Little People’s Book of Baby Animals (1980)

A fold out of animal babies and fairies.

Author(s): Susan Jeffers
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen, and Three Other Stories (1980)

Stories about rabbits, pigs and tigers.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Ann Strugnell

The River Road (1980)

Orphaned Sarah comes to Te Waitere, an isolated New Zealand sheep station, and finds a home.

Author(s): Joyce West
Illustrator(s): Doreen Caldwell

Warren Weasel’s Worse than Measles (1980)

Ronald Bear sets out to prove he can solve all the problems of the world, but Warren Weasel has him stumped. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Alice Bach
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

The Boy Who Spoke Chimp (1981)

A boy and a chimp have to survive on their own after a California earthquake.

Author(s): Jane Yolen
Illustrator(s): David Wiesner

Food Market (1981)

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

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Frog and Water Shrew (1981)

When their pond dries up, the water shrew and her children set off to follow the frog to the stream, but does he know the way?

Author(s): Helen Piers
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Pet Store (1981)

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

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

But not the Hippopotamus (1982)

Should she stay? Should she go?

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

Mr. Fox (1982)

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

Author(s): Gavin Bishop
Illustrator(s): Gavin Bishop

Prehistoric Pinkerton (1982)

“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

Author(s): Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Watership Down (1982)

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

Author(s): Richard Adams
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Chloë and Maude (1983)

Three stories about two cats.

  • The Art Lesson
  • Chloe, Maude and Sophia
  • Overnight

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

How the Whale Got His Throat (1983)

In this Just So Story, Rudyard Kipling tells the story of how the whale got his throat. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Mouldy (1983)

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

Author(s): William Mayne
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

The Ten-Alarm Camp-Out (1983)

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

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Cathy Warren
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

The Amazing Brain (1984)

What is the human brain like? The authors provide an actual and a metaphorical picture of it.

Peter Spier’s Little Cats (1984)

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

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Peter Spier’s Little Dogs (1984)

Six puppies are born and grow up in a hurry.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Peter Spier’s Little Rabbits (1984)

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

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

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