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ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words Genre
Books in the ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words genre:
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
One fish two fish red fish blue fish (1960)
More nonsense verse from Dr. Seuss.
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Hilary Knight’s ABC (1961)
A mostly animal ABC.
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Ten Little Animals (1961)
A counting rhyme as the animals go to bed for the winter.
Author(s):
Carl Memling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Animals in the Zoo (1962)
An alphabet of zoo animals.
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Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Edward Lear’s A Nonsense Alphabet (1962)
An alphabet by the master of nonsense.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Mary Poppins from A to Z (1962)
Twenty-six short stories about the denizens of Cherry Tree Lane.
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Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Angels & Berries & Candy Canes (1963)
A wordless Christmas ABC. (With an explanatory poem at the end.)
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
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
Curious George Learns the Alphabet (1963)
The man in the yellow hat teaches Curious George to read.
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I Can Count (1963)
Counting at the zoo.
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Author(s):
Carl Memling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever (1963)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Zozo Learns the Alphabet (1963)
Due to differences in British and American usage, several alternate illustrations and words were required for the British edition of Curious George Learns the Alphabet.
Feed the Hippo His ABC’s (1964)
A spelling book based on food.
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Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Goat in the Boat (1964)
An activity book of rhymes and writing.
Author(s):
Barbara Shook Hazen
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry’s European Word Book (1964)
The Best Word Book Ever with parallel English, French and German. There is also an edition which adds Czech.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
ABC: Penned & Illustrated by Edward Lear, Himself (1965)
Another previously unpublished alphabet.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Teeny Tiny Tales Set 1 (1965)
Eight tiny books including Learning to Count with Hooty Owl, Farmer Pig, Brave Elephant, The Runaway Bus, The Farm, The Four Seasons, Tugboat Tom, and The Fishing Cat.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
A Book of Sizes and Shapes (1966)
A shape book for young children.
Author(s):
Ken Sobol
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Richard Scarry’s Storybook Dictionary (1966)
A dictionary with stories about the words.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry