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Books in the Humorous genre:

Uncle Dynamite (1948)

Pongo is engaged to the wrong girl, so Uncle Fred steps in to straighten things out. Policemen are pushed into ponds, that day at the dog races raises its ugly head again, but all ends well with the correct couples re-united. Read online at archive.o... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Hal McIntosh

Uncle Dynamite (1948)

Pongo is engaged to the wrong girl, so Uncle Fred steps in to straighten things out. Policemen are pushed into ponds, that day at the dog races raises its ugly head again, but all ends well with the correct couples re-united. Read online at archive.o... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Frank Ford

April Fool! (1949)

Little Raymond Frog plays an April Fool’s Day joke on his father. But two can play that game.

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949)

King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. He gets a royal mess.

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1950
Caldecott Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1950

The Best of Wodehouse (1949)

A collection of short stories including ‘Good-bye to Butlers’ which was not reprinted elsewhere.

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

The Fabulous Flight (1949)

Peter Peabody Pepperell, who has shrunk to a tiny size, takes off on an adventure on the back of his seagull friend Gus.

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Freddy Goes to Florida (1949)

In this, their first adventure, the animals of the Bean farm, Freddy, Charles, Jinx, Hank, Mrs. Wiggins and the rest travel to Florida for the winter. Originally published as To and Again. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Hello, Mr. Henderson (1949)

Alexander Botts’ boss, Mr. Henderson has enough troubles of his own keeping Earthworm tractor buyers happy.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Joe Krush

Laughing Matter (1949)

A collection of humorous stories and poems including selections by Eleanor Estes, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, and Louis Untermeyer.... View More

Author(s): Helen R. Smith
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Mating Season (1949)

Bertie Wooster is again in peril of La Bassett when her engagament to Gussie Fink-Nottle starts to totter. Throw in a gang of the wrong sort of Aunts and only Jeeves could save the young master.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Hal McIntosh

The Mating Season (1949)

Bertie Wooster is again in peril of La Bassett when her engagament to Gussie Fink-Nottle starts to totter. Throw in a gang of the wrong sort of Aunts and only Jeeves could save the young master.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle comes to the rescue of parents who don’t know what to do when their children act up.

Author(s): Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Robbut a Tale of Tails (1949)

When Robbut saves the Little Man from a trap, he gets his heart’s desire, three times, but in the ends decides he is better off just as he was. This British edition has a colored dust jacket.

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

The Two Snowbulls (1949)

Oliver is sick in bed so his Daddy makes him a snowbull he can see through his bedroom window.

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949)

When Pop-pops is forced to retire from his job as a railroad engineer, he has to find a new home for himself and his four orphaned grandchildren - and he does, in a most unusual fashion. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s): Fritz Eichenberg

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1950)

King Derwin is tired of the same old weather. He tells his magicians to make something new. Fortunately Bartholomew is on the job when the oobleck begins to fall. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

If I Ran the Zoo (1950)

Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1951
Caldecott Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1950

The Little World of Don Camillo (1950)

Stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.

Author(s): Giovanni Guareschi
Illustrator(s): Giovanni Guareschi

Nothing Serious (1950)

A series of short stories including among others Bingo Little, Ukridge, and Lord Emsworth. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Frank Ford

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