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Animal Fantasy Genre

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Books in the Animal Fantasy genre:

Walter Crane’s New Toy Book (1873)

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Omnibus containing One, Two Buckle My Shoe, The Adventures of Puffy, This Little Pig Went to Market, Noah’s Ark Alphabet, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Cinderella, My Mother, and The Three Bears. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Lib... View More

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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How the Froggies Go to Sleep (1879)

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A collection of sixteen short stories and poems - better than average for its era. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Kirk Munroe
Et al
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox
Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins

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A Holiday Greeting (1880)

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A collection of stories and poems. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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Eight Happy Holidays (1882)

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Stories of children and the animals in the nearby wood and the holidays they celebrate.

Author(s): Anonymous
Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s): James Carter Beard
Palmer Cox

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The Owls of Olynn Belfry (1885)

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The story of two owlets who are kidnapped from their nest when their parents drive off two church burglars. Read online at RCSA.

Author(s): A. Y. D.
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Palmer Cox's Funny Animals (1890)

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A collection of illustrated humorous verse. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox
Clara Powers Wilson

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The Admiral’s Caravan (1892)

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A young girl named Dorothy takes a journey with three wooden statues who come alive on Christmas Eve. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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Reynard the Fox (1895)

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The medieval beast fable of how Reynard the Fox tricked the King of beasts and his court. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Anonymous
Henry Cole
Illustrator(s): W. Frank Calderon

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Cock Robin and Other Stories (1896)

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Five stories by E. Veale, the fairy tale authoress, illustrated by Palmer Cox. Read online at Baldwin Library.... View More

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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The First Trousers (1897)

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Eight very short stories, each with an illustration. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)

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This is a metrical version of Caxton’s old English translation of the traditional romance of Reynard the Fox. Read for free online at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Merry Mice (1897)

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Four stories about mice. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

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Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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Bob Son of Battle (1898)

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Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between. Published in the U.K. under the title Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir. ... View More

Author(s): Alfred Ollivant
Illustrator(s): Marguerite Kirmse

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The Monkey That Would Not Kill (1898)

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A collection of stories about a monkey that could not be killed -- shot, hanged, thrown into the sea with a stone around his neck, blown up with dynamite -- but not killed. Read online at Hathitrust. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Henry Drummond
Illustrator(s): Louis Wain

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)

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This is the first privately-printed edition with black-and-white only illustrations. Read online at wikisource.

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

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Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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Just So Stories (1902)

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A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

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Just So Stories (1902)

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A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

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The Tailor of Gloucester (1902)

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The tailor is assisted in finishing an important commission by the mice who live in his house. This was Beatrix Potter’s favorite among her books.This is the original privately printed edition which is longer than the first commercial edition.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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