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Nature - Fish Genre

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Books in the Nature - Fish genre:

If I Ran the Zoo (1950)

Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

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

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1951
Caldecott Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1950

Let Them Live (1951)

Discusses the effect of development on wildlife habitat.

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

The First Book of Prehistoric Animals (1954)

A primer on ancient animals.

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Author(s): Alice Dickinson
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Island in the Bay (1956)

Linn Swenson defies his grandfather's wishes and goes into debt to buy a dory so he can become a lobsterman. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

The Little Fish that Got Away (1956)

If you want to catch fish you have to be patient.

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

Everglades Adventure (1957)

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War and he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

The Garden Under the Sea (1957)

Oscar Lobster and his friends are tired of the humans stealing rocks and shells and decide turn-about is fair play.

Author(s): George Selden
Illustrator(s): Garry MacKenzie

A Little Golden Book about the Seashore (1957)

Fun things to know about the seashore.

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Author(s): Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Pagoo (1957)

The life history of a hermit crab.

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The Deep Blue Sea (1958)

An introduction to oceanography.

Animal Dictionary (1960)

Pictures and short descriptions of animals, familiar and not so very.

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Author(s): Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Plenty of Fish (1960)

An informative look at keeping pet fish.

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

Anyone Can Live off the Land (1961)

How to stay warm in the wilderness, fish without tackle, quench your thirst, avoid getting lost, and build a shelter.

Author(s): James Ralph Johnson
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Animals in the Zoo (1962)

An alphabet of zoo animals.

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

Marina (1962)

Marina, a young seal is saved from a shark by the porpoises.

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

A Tale of Tails (1962)

Why doesn’t everyone have a tail?

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Author(s): Elizabeth H. MacPherson
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Visitor from the Sea (1965)

When Becky Marshall rescues a dog washed up on her island, she has to figure out a way to keep it.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Lee Smith

Oscar Lobster’s Fair Exchange (1966)

Oscar and his friends decide if the humans can collect shells, they can collect human artefacts.

Author(s): George Selden
Illustrator(s): Peter Lippman

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