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African Genre
Books in the African genre:
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)
After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Jamba the Elephant (1942)
Author(s):
Theodore J. Waldeck
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Lions on the Hunt (1942)
Sur-Dah was a young lion of the African veldt who grew up to be the chief of his pack.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Theodore J. Waldeck
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The White Horse (1942)
Voyaging on the Fair American to Genoa, Sally, Andrew and Captain Patterson are captured by Moroccan pirates.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Adventure in Black and White (1943)
After years of exploring the African jungle, Commander Gatti writes a novel of young boys, black and white, with a touch of humor in a jungle adventure.
Author(s):
Attilio Gatti
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
A Day In the Jungle (1943)
Author(s):
Janette Sebring Lowrey
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Mpengo of the Congo (1945)
Author(s):
Grace W. McGavran
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
On Safari (1946)
The story of what it means to be an explorer.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Theodore J. Waldeck
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Sleepy Little Lion (1947)
In-between naps, a lion cub meets a series of pets.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Ylla
The Baby Camel and His Naughty Father (1948)
The camel driver picked up the baby camel in his arms. “We’ll give you a ride,” he said. “You’re too little to walk...”
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Little Leopard and His Fat Stomach (1948)
The father leopard gets his nose slapped by the porcupine’s tail, but the little leopard finds a nice bone, with the meat still on it.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Sky and the Forest (1948)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
The Tiger Kitten’s Poor, Poor Tail (1948)
The baby tiger was exploring and got stuck in a hollow log.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Two Stuck-in-the-Mud Rhinoceroses (1948)
When they fall asleep after their mud-bath the mother rhinoceros and her baby get stuck when the sun hardens the mud.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Why the Little Elephant Got Spanked (1948)
The little elephant goes off to see what his father is doing and his mother starts to worry.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Big Elephant (1949)
Growing tired of the circus, the elephant settles in a small town.
Read online at archive.org. This is a later edition.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Bob Clifton, Elephant Hunter (1949)
Author(s):
Dock Hogue
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Amos Fortune, Free Man (1950)
Brought to Massachusetts as a slave, after forty-five years he was able to buy his freedom, moved to New Hampshire and set up as a tanner.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Great Big Wild Animal Book (1951)
Portraits of our wild animal friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky