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ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words Genre
Books in the ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words genre:
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Barnett Freedman
Edward Lear
The Color Kittens (1949)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Alice Provensen
Martin Provensen
The Golden Book of Words: How They Look and What They Tell (1949)
One page stories are accompanied by pictures of vocabulary words.
Author(s):
Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Puss ’n Boots Book (1949)
A collection of cat drawings used in advertisements for Puss ’N Boots cat food. They make up a partial ABC.
Author(s):
Moreton Abbott
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1951)
An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c., and Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Little Golden ABC (1951)
An illustrated ABC.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
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
A Drawing Book Alphabet (1954)
One of Lear’s previously unpublished comic alphabets.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Golden Picture Book of Words: How They Look and What They Tell (1954)
This is a later version of this picture dictionary.
Author(s):
Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Baby’s First Book (1955)
A look at how baby spends her day.
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Millions and Millions and Millions! (1955)
How much is a million?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
My First Counting Book (1956)
Counting to ten with animal friends. This is a board book.
Author(s):
Lilian Moore
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
My First Counting Book (1956)
Counting to ten with animal friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lilian Moore
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Animal’s ABC (1957)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
My Big Golden Counting Book (1957)
Counting to ten with animal friends. This is the folio edition of “My First Counting Book.”
Author(s):
Lilian Moore
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
My First Golden Dictionary (1957)
This Big Golden Book has 268 words and pictures. Later editions had only 28 pages.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edith Osswald
Mary Reed
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Over in the Meadow (1957)
A traditional counting rhyme.
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Author(s):
John Langstaff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Spelling and Using Words (1957)
A grade school speller.
Author(s):
Lillian Billington
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Little Golden Picture Dictionary (1959)
A dictionary with pictures of each word.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nancy Fielding Hulick
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely