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Books in the Picture Book genre:

The School Mouse (1977)

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A first grader is reconciled to school when he finds his pet mouse has moved to the school room. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dorothy Joan Harris
Illustrator(s): Chris Conover

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Ship’s Cook Ginger (1977)

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Tim and Ginger are off on another sea voyage. When the crew is laid low by food poisoning the two friends must come to the rescue.

Author(s): Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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Stories and Poems for the Young (1977)

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An anthology of stories illustrated by many different artists, including Hilary Knight, and Garth Williams and Richard Scarry.... View More

Author(s): Bryna Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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Teeny Tiny ABC (1977)

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A very small ABC book.

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

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Things to Make from Junk (1977)

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How to make all sorts of things from household bits and pieces.

Author(s): Felicia Law
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg

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When the Wind Blew (1977)

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An old woman who lives by the sea takes comfort in her seventeen cats.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Geoffrey L. Hayes

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Anno’s Italy (1978)

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Gorgeous scenes of daily life in Italy, interwoven with famous Italian religious paintings of Jesus. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s): Mitsumasa Anno

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Anno’s Journey (1978)

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A lone man arrives by boat, bargains for a horse, and traverses the meadows, forests, farmlands, villages, and cities of a European country. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s): Mitsumasa Anno

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Anybody at Home? (1978)

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The short verses in Anybody at Home? ask children to identify various homes and the animals and objects that live there. This is a later, smaller format edition and the pictures have been redrawn. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

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Appelard and Liverwurst (1978)

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Appelard has lost his mule and most of his farm buildings to a tornado, but it has left him with a baby rhinoceros. How the rhinoceros ends up in jail, is broken out by his mother and they all end up in the circus is the burden of this tale. Read onl... View More

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

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Asterix and the Normans (1978)

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Normans believe that terror gives you wings so you can fly. They plan to test their theory by pushing Vitalstatistix’s cowardly nephew off the edge of a cliff. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

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Bored - Nothing to Do! (1978)

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Two brothers decide to build an airplane and it works!

Read online at archive.org.

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

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Bored - Nothing to Do! (1978)

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Two brothers decide to build an airplane -- and it flies!

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

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The Church Mice at Bay (1978)

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When the vacation curate arrives at Wortlethorpe some changes are made - not at all to the satisfaction of Sampson and the church mice.

Author(s): Graham Oakley
Illustrator(s): Graham Oakley

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Cinderella (1978)

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The kitchen maid attends the palace ball with the help of her fairy godmother.

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

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The Circus is Coming (1978)

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An artistic tour de force of a book about that quintessential tour de force the Circus. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Close Your Eyes (1978)

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A lullaby.

Author(s): Jean Marzallo
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

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Each Peach Pear Plum (1978)

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A game of I Spy with favorite nursery characters.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg

Greenaway Medal
Greenaway Medal - 1978
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For Lovers of Birds (1978)

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Drawings accompany selections from Edward Lear’s letters and diaries.

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

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For Lovers of Cats (1978)

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Drawings accompany selections from Edward Lear’s letters and diaries.

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

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