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African Genre
Books in the African genre:
The Golden Geography: A Child’s Introduction to the World (1952)
This is a brief survey of the the world’s geography, copiously illustrated.
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Author(s):
Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Barbary Pirates (1953)
The fledgling United States Navy takes on the lawless raiders of the Mediterranean.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Charles J. Mazoujian
Livingstone the Pathfinder (1954)
Author(s):
Basil Mathews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Wheel on the Chimney (1954)
The story of a family of storks as they migrate from Africa to Hungary to raise their brood, then return in the fall.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
A Beast Called an Elephant (1955)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Boss Chombale (1957)
Author(s):
Margaret Carson Hubbard
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Evie and Cookie (1957)
The further adventures of Evie and her pet, Cookie, the wonderful kangaroo, including the story of the great kangaroo garden party.
Author(s):
Irmengarde Eberle
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Baby Wild Animals (1958)
A stamp book featuring wild animals.
Author(s):
John Wallace Purcell
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Wild Animal Babies (1958)
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Wild Animal Babies from All Over the World (1958)
Twenty-two wild animal babies from a buffalo to a skunk selected from the Baby Wild Animals stamp book.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Best in Children’s Books Volume 20 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 23 (1959)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Rose Fyleman
Gladys Schwarcz
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Vladimir Bobritski
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
The Marshmallow Ghosts (1960)
The little ghosts go trick-or-treating as children!
Author(s):
Otto Friedrich
Priscilla Friedrich
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Rupert the Rhinoceros (1960)
Author(s):
Carl Memling
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Wild Animals (1960)
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
More Adventures of Tinker and Tanker (1963)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tinker and Tanker in Africa (1963)
The dark continent holds no fears for the two explorers.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tinker and Tanker Travel Out West and to Africa (1963)
Two adventures of the rabbit and hippo abbreviated from earlier volumes.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tiny Tots Picture Books (1963)
A collection of six picture books including How Babar Became King.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales (1964)
A collection of traditional African tales about the trickster spider.
Author(s):
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney