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Nature - Mammals Genre

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Books in the Nature - Mammals genre:

Spiky the Hedgehog (1938)

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

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

The Yearling (1938)

Jodie rescues a fawn and raises it on his family’s Florida farm.

Author(s): Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Young Settler (1938)

Hi Ellison goes to the Iowa territory with his family, and his horse, Euclid, who almost always wins her races. The local Sauk befriend him and make him a member of their tribe. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

Horses and Americans (1939)

Phil Stong grew up around horses and rode them and worked them on his Iowa farm. Here he surveys the place of the horse in the development of America. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Little Buffalo Boy (1939)

A story about the plains Indians.

Scaf the Seal (1939)

A realistic depiction of the life of a seal. Not intended for young children.

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

The Story Book of Things We Wear: Wool, Cotton, Silk, Rayon (1939)

An omnibus containing The Story Books of Wool, Cotton, Silk, and Rayon.... View More
Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1940

The Story Book of Wool (1939)

Where it comes from, how we process it, why we wear it.

Read online at archive.org. 

Stripey: A Little Zebra (1939)

The adventures of a young zebra.

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

Wiggins for President (1939)

The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Later published as Freddy the Politician.

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

The Yearling (1939)

The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Cat and the Kitten (1940)

Minnie’s kittens find homes with nearby families, but Timmy stays with her and has a winter adventure.

Greased Lightning (1940)

Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1941

Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)

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

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

Presents for Lupe (1940)

The story of a red squirrel from South America and her North American friends.

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

Trail of an Artist-Naturalist (1940)

Autobiography of the Canadian artist-naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

Vanka’s Donkey (1940)

In this old Russian story, a farm woman learns that kindness is the best way to treat her donkey.

Author(s): Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Yearling (1940)

The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)

A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.

Author(s): Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s): Rojan

Animals for Me (1941)

A simple picture book for very young children about the animals around us.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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