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Books in the Animal Fantasy genre:

The Great Geppy (1940)

Every evening the safe at the Bott Bros. Three-Ring Circus is being robbed. This is obviously a job for the Great Geppy, a detective who can walk a tightrope, be shot from a cannon, train lions, and blend in with the clowns and the freaks. Read onlin... View More

Author(s): William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1940

Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)

When Mazie asks Horton to keep her egg warm, he did not expect that she wasn’t coming back. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Talking Typewriter (1940)

Johnny Hunt - and- Pecker learns to type from the Asterisk Man.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Margaret Pratt
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Topsy Turvy Circus (1940)

When the circus gets in a jam, the giraffe comes through.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Wind in the Willows (1940)

While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Wind in the Willows (1940)

Arthur Rackham was the first artist approached to illustrate Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank, but was too busy at the time. When he was contracted by the Limited Editions Club... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)

A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.

Author(s): Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s): Rojan

Animal Babies (1941)

Stories about a wide variety of animal young, from the familiar to the more exotic.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Alice Day Pratt
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Colt from Moon Mountain (1941)

Joey and Cynthy befriend the littlest colt they ever saw.

Author(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Curious George (1941)

The man in the yellow hat captures Curious George and brings him to a zoo, but not without many adventures along the way. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): H. A. Rey
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

The Flying Locomotive (1941)

Toto Number 2 wants to be a Swiss Flyer. When his fairy godmother gives him the power to fly, he helps Madame Suzie, the famous Swiss cow save a mountaineer in distress.

Author(s): William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Freddy and the Ignormus (1941)

No one has ever seen it, but everyone knows and fears the Ignormus living in the big woods. When things start to go missing from the Bean farm, Freddy finds the trail leads to an abandoned house - and the Ignormus. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

I Discover Columbus (1941)

Aurelio the parrot tells the real story of what happened when Columbus met Isabella in 1492. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

Muffy: The Tale of a Muskrat (1941)

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Author(s): Zenobia Bird
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Nothing At All (1941)

When his two visible brothers are chosen as pets by a two children, their invisible brother realizes he must get to work and make himself visible so he too can become a pet.

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1942

The Polite Penguin (1941)

When a raccoon tries to teach a penguin manners, anything can happen.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

The Poodle and the Sheep (1941)

Poodle won’t leave the sheep alone so he ends up in dog jail.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Leonard Weisgard

A Squirrel Called Rufus (1941)

As all poets tend toward epic, Richard Church gives us the epic battle between the red squirrels and the grey. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Richard Church
Illustrator(s): John Skeaping

Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys (1942)

Cecily giraffe wants some one to play with and Curious George (in his first book) and his eight friends are happy to oblige. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): H. A. Rey
Illustrator(s): H. A. Rey

The Elephant’s Child (1942)

How an encounter with a crocodile gave the elephant’s child his enormous trunk.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942

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