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Animal Fantasy Genre
Books in the Animal Fantasy genre:
The Elephant’s Child and Other Just-So Stories (1942)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Elizabite: Adventures of a Carnivorous Plant (1942)
A carnivorous plant is captured and brought back to civilization - and ends up in the zoo.
Read online at Internet Archive.
The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)
Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Jack Conroy
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Four Famous Just So Stories (1942)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Freddy and the Perilous Adventure (1942)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Hi-Po the Hippo (1942)
When a baby hippo is left on their front lawn, Mr. and Mrs Hippo decide to keep him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
How the Baby Hippo Found a Home (1942)
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Hippo find a baby in a basket by their front door. Mr. Hippo decides to keep the little boy whose name is Hi-Po.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)
After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Indoor Noisy Book (1942)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Little Lost Monkey (1942)
Tells about the adventures of Winki, a young Sakiwinki monkey, who had a larger curiosity bump on his head than his relatives and ran away from his mother in order to learn more about the world.
Author(s):
Jo Besse McElveen Waldeck
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Merry Shipwreck (1942)
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
First mate Bumps brings a remarkable monkey named Jasper home to England.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Mythical Monsters (1942)
Author(s):
Powell Perry
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Night and Day (1942)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Paddy’s Christmas (1942)
A young bear wakes up in midwinter and discovers Christmas.
Author(s):
Helen Albee Monsell
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Runaway Bunny (1942)
When the bunny decides to run away, his mother follows him.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Clement Hurd
Tit for Tat (1942)
What if the animals could treat us as we treat them?
The Adventures of Monkey (1943)
The roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Author(s):
Arthur Waley
Ch’eng-en Wu
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy and the Bean Home News (1943)
Freddy starts the animals’ own newspaper The Bean Home News and gets involved in the notorious affair of the cast iron deer.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Lively Little Rabbit (1943)
Author(s):
Ariane
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren