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Books in the Picture Book genre:

Bedtime Stories, Selected from the Big Golden Bedtime Book (1963)

A collection of short stories.

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

Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man (1963)

Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man, is fishing and accidentally hooks a whale’s tale, but all is forgiven when he removes the hook and applies a Band-Aid -- but then all the other whales want one too. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s): Robert McCloskey

A Capital Ship or the Walloping Window-Blind (1963)

Nonsense verse on a nautical theme.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Paul Galdone

The Castafiore Emerald (1963)

Bianca Castafiore invites herself to Marlinspike Hall, then her famous emerald goes missing and its up to Tintin to recover it. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Chipmunk’s ABC (1963)

Chipmunk lives in a burrow under the apple tree and so on all the way to Z.

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

Christmas Nutshell Library (1963)

Four tiny books in a colorful box.

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

A Christmas Stocking Story (1963)

The animals’ stockings get mixed up in the wash and Santa has to fill them in the dark, but on Christmas day they manage to sort things out.

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

The Cow Went Over the Mountain (1963)

The little heifer leads the animals to greener pastures on the neighboring mountain, only to find the greener pastures were on their own mountain. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Curious George Learns the Alphabet (1963)

The man in the yellow hat teaches Curious George to read.

Read online at archive.org. 

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

The Dog and Cat Book (1963)

Stories and poems about dogs and cats.

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

The Fables of La Fontaine (1963)

Familiar fables of the French master.

A Firefly in a Fir Tree (1963)

A mouse twelve days of Christmas.

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

Harold’s ABC (1963)

Harold sets out to see the moon, by way of the ABCs, with his trusty purple crayon in hand. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

Hop on Pop (1963)

More nonsense from Dr. Seuss.

Read online at archive.org

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

I am a Bunny (1963)

Nicholas bunny describes the seasons of the year.

Read online at archive.org

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

I Can Count (1963)

Counting at the zoo.

Read online at archive.org

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

Just for Fun (1963)

The animals have fun building a tree house, dressing up and fishing. This is the Read It Yourself edition.

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

The Lion’s Own Story: Eight New Stories About Ellen’s Lion (1963)

More stories about Ellen and her lion.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy (1963)

A little giant girl goes to pick a bush for the dinner table and meets a tiny elf boy.

Author(s): Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Luigi and the Long-Nosed Soldier (1963)

Every Saturday Luigi takes the bus from Italy to Switzerland for his violin lesson with Professor Tagliatini. The new young soldier with the long nose who checks for smugglers steals his cakes from his lunch box, until one day Professor Tagliatini te... View More

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

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