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Books in the Families genre:

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Seven Dogs (1959)

The triplets help out at the kennels, but when the dachsund Bonnie is lost it is Prince to the rescue.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

The Tenement Tree (1959)

Tino spends the summer in the country with his aunt and helps her write a book about the animals he sees. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Trick or Treat (1959)

One Halloween, there are lights on in the old haunted house, so the children knock on the door and go in, one by one -- and don’t come out again -- until … Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

Trovato (1959)

An English spinster travels to Italy for her health and soon acquires a magpie and an orphan boy. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich

Wild Pony Island (1959)

When Rick Landon comes to the attention of the law. his mother decides to move the family back to her home town - Ocracoke Island.

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

Bedtime for Frances (1960)

It is bedtime for Frances. Will she ever go to sleep?

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Russell Hoban
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Best in Children’s Books Volume 32 (1960)

A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.

Buffalo and Beaver (1960)

Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

The Complete Peterkin Papers (1960)

This compilation of the adventures of the Peterkins and the Lady from Philadelphia who solves their difficulties, includes The Peterkin Papers, The Last of the Peterkins and some hitherto uncollected stories.... View More

Author(s): Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s): Various

The Cowboy Twins (1960)

The Cowboy twins set out for their ranch in Oklahoma.

Author(s): Florence Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Big Red Hen (1960)

The big red hen disappears while the triplets are looking after their aunt’s chickens, but brings three new chicks when she comes back. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Flowering Spring (1960)

Laura is determined to act, but her father thinks teaching would be more practical.

Author(s): Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s): Shirley Hughes

For the Leg of a Chicken (1960)

Roberto is sick and tired of eating only corn dodgers and leaves home in search of a chicken dinner.

Author(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich

Friendly Gables (1960)

The Mitchells now have a home of their own, and newborn twin boys.

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Kidnappers at Coombe (1960)

Jane and Tim Cooper and their friends the Maitlands are off on a holiday adventure in Devonshire.

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

Oswald Bastable and Others (1960)

A collection of short stories, four of which concern the Bastable children.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar

Paolo and Panetto (1960)

A little Italian boy gets over his fears after a nighttime adventure with Pan.

Author(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1960)

The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): J. S. Goodall

The Story of the Amulet (1960)

The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

Terrible, Horrible Edie (1960)

Edie wants to be included in her older siblings plans, but ends up making her own adventures. The family’s summer by the shore comes to a climax with a hurricane - and it isn’t Edie. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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