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Books in the Picture Book genre:

Walt and Skeezix 1929 & 1930 (2011)

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Frank O. King’s newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, starring Walt Wallet, first appeared November 24, 1918. In the strip for February 14, 1921, a baby, whom Walt names Skeezix is left on Walt’s doorstep. This is the fifth volume of the collec... View More

Author(s): Frank King
Illustrator(s): Frank King

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Al Capp’s Li’l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Volume Five 1943-1944 (2012)

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This reprinting includes both the daily strips and the color Sunday strips.

Author(s): Al Capp
Illustrator(s): Al Capp
Et al

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Al Capp’s Li’l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Volume Four 1941-1942 (2012)

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This reprinting includes both the daily strips and the color Sunday strips.

Author(s): Al Capp
Illustrator(s): Al Capp
Et al

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Around the World We Go (2012)

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Sing, dance and play with children from around the world.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Christine Tappin

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Boynton Gift Set (2012)

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Includes: But Not the Hippopotamus The Going to Bed Book Moo, Baa, La La La! Opposites ... View More

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

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Castle: How it Works (2012)

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A simplified version of the author’s original Castle. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

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Cheerful: A Picture-Story (2012)

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A young church mouse sets out to see the world.

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

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A Christmas for Shacktown Volume 11 (2012)

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This volume of full color comics by Carl Barks leads off with a classic story of Scrooge’s fortune lost and found again. For a preview go to Fantagraphics.... View More

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

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Christmas Parade (2012)

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The Boynton animals get together for a holiday parade.

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

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Clorinda Plays Baseball (2012)

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Clorinda the cow takes up baseball. In no time at all her protege Deke is in in the big leagues. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume Eight Daily and Sunday Comics 1938-1940 (2012)

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This is the eighth volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips and Sunday strips in color from 1938-1940.

Author(s): Harold Gray
Illustrator(s): Harold Gray

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The Complete Steve Canyon Dailies and Color Sundays Volume 1 1947-1948 (2012)

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This is the first volume in a reprinting of the adventure strip written and drawn by Milton Caniff beginning in 1947 until his death in 1988 and includes the dailies and color Sundays.... View More

Author(s): Milton Caniff
Illustrator(s): Milton Caniff

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E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 6 (2012)

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This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1937 to 1938. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

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

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Goodnight Little One (2012)

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The animals are getting ready for bed.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Rebecca Elliott

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Little Golden Book Farm Favorites (2012)

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An collection including A Day on the Farm, A Name for Kitty and The Jolly Barnyard.... View More

Author(s): Annie North Bedford
Nancy Fielding Hulick
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely
J. P. Miller
Feodor Rojankovsky

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Little Pookie (2012)

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Ten things his mother knows about Little Pookie.

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

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Mossy (2012)

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Mossy and her portable garden are the star of Dr. Carolina’s museum, but she longs to return to her pond.

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

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Only a Poor Old Man Volume 12 (2012)

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In the lead story Uncle Scrooge engages in a battle to the last cent with the Beagle Boys and first reveals why he really needs all that money -- so he can “dive into it like a porpoise, burrow through it like a gopher and throw it up and let i... View More

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

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Peter Pan: Lost and Found (2012)

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An introduction to Peter Pan for those who are just learning to read.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Susan Hill
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

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Puss in Boots (2012)

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When the miller’s youngest son is left only a cat, he little realizes what a cat Puss is.

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

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