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Books in the Picture Book genre:

Trains, Boats and Trucks (1987)

An omnibus containing Tootle, and Scuffy the Tugboat, and Cars and Trucks, and Fire Engines.... View More

We The People (1987)

Pictures illustrate the preamble to the constitution. Appendices include the text and portraits of the original signers. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

What If? (1987)

Two kittens are banished when they can’t stay away from the Christmas tree.

Author(s): Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrator(s): Margaret Bloy Graham

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road (1987)

Not why, but what happened when the chicken crossed that road.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): David Macaulay
Illustrator(s): David Macaulay

Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (1987)

Anna explores the garden and plays in the pond with the frogs.

Author(s): Nancy White Carlstrom
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Asterix and the Magic Carpet (1988)

The wonderful village where Asterix and Obelix live has only one drawback: its musician Cacofonix is the worst in the world. But then a stranger flies in on a magic carpet asking for help in ending a terrible drought. Suddenly, Cacofonix’s tale... View More

Author(s): Albert Uderzo
Illustrator(s): Albert Uderzo

Barney Bipple’s Magic Dandelions (1988)

In this edition Steven Kellogg has redone the illustrations. Barney receives three dandelions, each of which will grant a wish. But things soon start going wrong.

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

Benjy and His Friend Fifi (1988)

Benjy and Fifi go to the dog show and have a bang-up time.

Author(s): Margaret Bloy Graham
Illustrator(s): Margaret Bloy Graham

The Carl Barks Library Set VII (1988)

This three volume set contains Barks stories from Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories numbers thirty-one through ninety-four.

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

Catwings (1988)

Thelma, Roger, James and Harriet Tabby were born in a dumpster, but they have wings.

Author(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
Illustrator(s): S. D. Schindler

The Complete E. C. Segar Popeye Volume 8 Dailies 1932-1934 (1988)

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater daily strips from 1932 to 1934 as Popeye continues to dominate the storyline.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

The Diggers (1988)

The diggers of holes from moles to Mary Ann.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Daniel Kirk

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes (1988)

Running for ten years, from 1985 to 1995, the adventures of Calvin and his tiger friend Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of all time. This collection includes cartoons from Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed is Drooling as w... View More

Author(s): Bill Watterson
Illustrator(s): Bill Watterson

The First Dog (1988)

Kip the cave boy tames a paleo wolf and names him Dog.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Jan Brett
Illustrator(s): Jan Brett

Forest of Dreams (1988)

A song of praise and thanksgiving.

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

The Green Lion of Zion Street (1988)

A group of children waiting for the school bus in the fog scare themselves with the thought of the lion crouching nearby.

Author(s): Julia Fields
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Happy Birthday Dear Duck (1988)

For his birthday Duck got a day filled with friends who liked him a lot. That’s what Duck got. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Eve Bunting
Illustrator(s): Jan Brett

Johnny Appleseed (1988)

Steven Kellogg tells the story of Johnny Chapman’s adventures as he sowed apple trees ahead of the westward migration of the pioneers. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose, or, Old Nursery Rhymes (1988)

This is a facsimile reproduction of the sketchbooks in which Kate Greenaway first drew her illustrations for Mother Goose.... View More

Author(s): Kate Greenaway
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

The Land of Nod (1988)

‘In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.’ and twenty-nine other familiar poems. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

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