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Books in the Picture Book genre:

Plenty of Fish (1960)

An informative look at keeping pet fish.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Millicent Selsam
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Red Sea Sharks (1960)

Tintin and Haddock journey to the middle east to assist the Emir of Khemed and are soon embroiled in the Arab slave trade. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

Richard Scarry’s Just for Fun (1960)

The animals have fun building a tree house, dressing up and fishing.

Author(s): Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Rupert the Rhinoceros (1960)

Rupert the nearsighted rhino is a danger to his friends, until he gets a pair of glasses. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Tenggren’s The Lion´s Paw: A Tale of African Animals (1960)

Only the mouse has the courage to remove the thorn from the lion’s paw. This is a large format edition.

Author(s): Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Tinker and Tanker (1960)

A rabbit and a hippo set out to see the world.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Tortoise and Turtle (1960)

Tortoise and Turtle invite the animals to a party.

Author(s): Evelyn Gendel
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)

Forty-eight stories from favorite Little Golden Books.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Up High and Down Low (1960)

A mountain goat and a lamb trade places for a day, but find themselves out of place and are happy to return home.

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

Welcome Home! (1960)

A fox hunt from the fox’s perspective.

When I Grow Up (1960)

A song for a boy and a song for a girl about what they might become when they grow up. A Read-and-Sing book.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Wisher (1960)

Mrs. Tortoise-Shell cat’s son Wisher is not sure he wants to be a cat. And suddenly, he finds himself a goldfish. It becomes much clearer that he should be a cat.

Author(s): Charles Michael Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Adventures of Tinker and Tanker (1961)

An omnibus containing Tinker and Tanker, Tinker and Tanker and Their Space Ship and Tinker and Tanker Out West... View More

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Big and Little Creatures (1961)

An anthology of material from the Little Golden Books series.

Billy the Barber (1961)

Billy the Barber is just finishing his last day as a barber before he retires. Then he receives a present from his grateful customers. Does he really have to retire? Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse and other Aesop’s Fables (1961)

Includes The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The Fox and the Crow and The Dog and His Bone. Red online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Davy Goes Places (1961)

Davy gets about on cars, trucks, trains and scooters.

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

Four Fur Feet (1961)

The furry animal walks around the world on his four fur feet.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Remy Charlip

Good Night, Little Bear (1961)

Good night, Little Bear - but he doesn’t want to go to bed.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

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