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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

The Calculus Affair (1960)

Professor Calculus has been kidnapped and it’s up to Tintin to rescue him before his captors get the secret of his new weapon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

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

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

Merry-Go-Round (1960)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Leland Jacobs
Jo Jasper Turner
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Mister Billy’s Gun (1960)

Mr. Billy decides there is more than one way to keep the wild creatures from eating him out of house and garden.

The Most of P.G. Wodehouse (1960)

A collection of short stories and the complete novel Quick Service.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Paul Bacon

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (1960)

Nine short stories including ‘The Cockatoucan,’ 'Melisande, or, Long and Short Division,’ and ‘Whereyouwanttogoto.’

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar
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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 Red Sea Sharks (1960)

Tintin and Haddock journey to the middle east to assist the Emir of Khemed and are soon embroiled in the Arab slave trade. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

Treat Shop (1960)

An intermediate reader.

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
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Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss
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Winnie Ille Pu (1960)

The adventures of Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends rendered into Latin.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Book of Dragons (1961)

A collection of eight stories about dragons.

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

The Canterbury Tales (1961)

A selection of Chaucer’s tales for children, in modern English.

Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Katie and the Sad Noise (1961)

Katie hears a sad noise in the night, three days running. On the third day, she leads her father and the townsfolk in tracking it down.

Author(s): Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s): Ellie Simmons

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