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Books in the American genre:

A Summertime Song (1997)

One warm summer night, a frog jumps into Lucy’s room with an invitation to a birthday party. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Irene Haas
Illustrator(s): Irene Haas

A-Hunting We Will Go (1998)

Steven Kellogg has written new verses to a traditional nursery song and enlivened it with his fanciful illustrations. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Black Cowboy Wild Horses (1998)

Bob Lemmons rides his horse Warrior to round up the wild mustangs.

Author(s): Julius Lester
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

The Children’s Book of America (1998)

Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

A Favourite Treasury of Children’s Stories (1998)

An anthology of stories by different authors and illustrators. This is an abridged version of the Puffin edition. Contains new Pauline Baynes illustrations for an excerpt from The Sword in the Stone. Read online at archive.org.... View More

First Reader (1998)

Twelve Little Golden Books are here presented complete at full size. Read online at archive.org.

Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1998)

A large collection, chiefly of pictures of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family members.

Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): Photographs

Li’l Abner Volume 27 Dailies 1961 (1998)

Set in the hillbilly South, Li’l Abner was one of the most popular comic strips in America for decades. This is the twenty-seventh and last volume in this reprinting of the strip - but not the end of the strip.

The Lost Princess of Oz (1998)

Ozma is missing and with her all the magic treasures of Oz. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Pouring Iron: A Foundry Ghost Story (1998)

Howard prepares a mould for casting at the Old Knight Foundry.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): David Weitzman
Illustrator(s): David Weitzman

Rinkitink in Oz (1998)

When the pearl pirates capture the people of Pingaree, it is up to the King of neighboring Rinkitink, his talking goat, Bilbil, and the young prince Inga of Pingaree to rescue them. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon (1998)

A boxed set containing My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s): Ruth Chrisman Gannett

The Absolutely Essential Eloise (1999)

Six-year-old Eloise lives in the sophisticated Plaza Hotel along with a singing nanny and a cat-looking dog. All day long, Eloise explores the hotel and its inhabitants, filling her days with great adventures. This special edition includes informatio... View More

Author(s): Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Bob and 6 More Christmas Stories (1999)

A collection of rhyming tales featuring silly animals, including a very tiny reindeer and a dog who is searching for the perfect gift box.

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

The Call of the Wild (1999)

Stolen from his home, Buck is shanghaied to the Klondike gold fields. There he bonds with John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by robbers, Buck becomes the leader of the wolf pack.

Author(s): Jack London
Illustrator(s): Wendell Minor

Charlotte’s Web (1999)

Fern adopts the runt of the litter and names him Wilbur, but it is Charlotte, A. Cavatica, who ensures he will always have a home on the Arable farm. For this new Collector’s Edition Rosemary Wells has colored the illustrations. Read online at ... View More

Author(s): E. B. White
Illustrator(s): Rosemary Wells
Garth Williams

A Child’s Calendar (1999)

A poem for every month of the year.

Author(s): John Updike
Illustrator(s): Trina Schart Hyman

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 2000

Eloise at Christmastime (1999)

It’s Christmastime and Eloise is stirring things up at the Plaza Hotel.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (1999)

The adventures of an American doll as she travels the world.

Author(s): Rachel Field
Rosemary Wells
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

Locomotive: Building an Eight-Wheeler (1999)

The construction of a 4-4-0 from draftsman to delivery.

Author(s): David Weitzman
Illustrator(s): David Weitzman

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