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Babies Genre
Books in the Babies genre:
The Circus Baby (1950)
Mother elephant decides it is time her baby learned proper table manners.
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Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Peppermint Family (1950)
Mr. Peppermint is fishing at the North Pole, when he learns that his son has been born.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Clement Hurd
Christmas in the Barn (1952)
A poetic evocation of Christmas, set in a twentieth-century farm.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Rabbit and His Friends (1953)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Sleepy ABC (1953)
An ABC poem to carry you off to sleep.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Esphyr Slobodkina
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)
The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.
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Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Baby’s First Book (1955)
A look at how baby spends her day.
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
A Child’s Good Night Book and A Child’s Good Morning (1955)
An omnibus including a good night book and a good morning book.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
Young Kangaroo (1955)
The life story of a baby kangaroo in its mother’s pouch.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Symeon Shimin
Big Little Davy (1956)
Follows Davy from a baby just learning to crawl until he goes off to his first day of school.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Melvin the Moose Child (1957)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Baby Wild Animals (1958)
A stamp book featuring wild animals.
Author(s):
John Wallace Purcell
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Do You Know What I’ll Do? (1958)
A little girl tells her baby brother what she will do to make him happy.
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Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
I am a Bunny (1963)
Nicholas bunny describes the seasons of the year.
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Author(s):
Ole Risom
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Thursday Kidnapping (1963)
When the Ramsay children turn their backs on the buggy where the baby they are minding is sleeping, it disappears -- with the baby in it.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bennie and the New Baby (1964)
New Baby is confined to a play-pen when he gets too annoying.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Hop, Little Kangaroo (1965)
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Henry Reed’s Baby-Sitting Service (1966)
Henry and Midge decide to start a baby-sitting service as their summer project.
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
I Am a Fox (1967)
A little fox introduces his family and neighbors.
Author(s):
Ole Risom
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry’s Egg in the Hole Book (1967)
Help Henny find her lost egg.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry