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Books in the Picture Book genre:

Tinker and Tanker and Their Space Ship (1961)

The intrepid rabbit and his hippo friend are off to explore the stratosphere.

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

Tinker and Tanker Journey to Tootletown and Build a Spaceship (1961)

Contains Tinker and Tanker and Tinker and Tanker Build a Spaceship, in abbreviated form. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Tinker and Tanker Out West (1961)

Ride ’em cowboy! as Tinker and Tanker travel to the old west.

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

Where’s Willie? (1961)

The black kitten and Peter play hide-and-seek.

Author(s): Seymour Reit
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Whirly Bird (1961)

The true story of a baby robin that fell from its nest and was raised and fledged by its human neighbors. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dmitry Varley
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Amat and the Water-Buffalo (1962)

Amat, a young Indonesian boy, longs for the day when he is big enough to ride the water buffalo that works in the rice fields.

Animals in the Zoo (1962)

An alphabet of zoo animals.

Read online at archive.org. 

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

Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)

This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.

The Dog in the Tapestry Garden (1962)

An Italian greyhound jumps into a tapestry to play with a dog she sees there.

Read online at archive.org

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

Edward Lear’s A Nonsense Alphabet (1962)

An alphabet by the master of nonsense.

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

The Golden Egg Book (1962)

When a curious bunny finds a blue speckled egg, he can’t wait to find out who, or what, is inside it. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Lilian Obligado

Golden Shoe Book (1962)

An activity book that teaches how to tie your shoes.

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

Hi, Tom (1962)

On his way home from school to his home on Hermit Mountain, Tom likes to call his name and hear the echo - then one day he hears some one else call his name. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nanda Ward
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

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Hilary Knight’s Mother Goose (1962)

Over 100 nursery rhymes.

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

Horses and Their Friends (1962)

A collection of stories and poems about horses, dogs and cats.

Io Sono I Am (1962)

Learn forty-one words of Italian with this amusing picture book.

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

Jeremiah Octopus (1962)

Jeremiah goes to look for his mother’s lost oranges.

Author(s): Margaret Stone Zilboorg
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Juan Bobo and the Queen's Necklace (1962)

When the Queen's necklace goes missing, simple Juan Bobo tracks it down.

Author(s): Pura Belpré
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Know the Stars (1962)

This is a paperback abridgement of Find the Constellations.

Author(s): H. A. Rey
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

The Late Cuckoo (1962)

One day the the Sultan of Garabia comes to a Swiss cuckoo clock maker’s shop and wishes to buy all of his clocks for his nieces and nephews and dozens of cousins, but he insists that they must all be accurate and one of the cuckoos is late! Rea... View More

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

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