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Books in the Animal Fantasy genre:

Blue Barns: The Story of Two Big Geese and Seven Little Ducks (1933)

The little ducks learn to fly on their own.

Author(s): Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Doctor Dolittle’s Return (1933)

Doctor Dolittle makes his triumphant return from his visit to the moon.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Gaston and Joséphine (1933)

The adventures of two French pigs who travel to America. This is the original somewhat longer version, illustrated by its author.

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

Get-A-Way and Hary Janos (1933)

A worn-out stuffed horse and a broken-down toy soldier travel to the land where toys become new again.

The Little White Goat (1933)

Two small children befriend a fairy goat who introduces them to the animals of the forest. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Story of Babar the Little Elephant (1933)

When his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar runs away and finds himself in a town where he is adopted by a very rich Old Lady.

Author(s): Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s): Jean de Brunhoff

The Wind in the Willows (1933)

This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Alexander, the Tale of a Monkey (1934)

A delightful tale about a baby monkey who becomes a pet and the many escapades he gets into.

Author(s): Edith Brown
Marion Brown
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Flash: The Story of a Horse, a Coach-Dog and the Gypsies (1934)

The story of the fastest horse in the kingdom, sire of Powder, how he ran off with the gypsies, and finally comes home.

Author(s): Esther Averill
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Gaston and Joséphine in America (1934)

Two French pigs visit America, spend all their money on 5th Avenue in New York and work their way to Hollywood.

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

Odie Seeks a Friend (1934)

Odie the Skunk finds that animals and human beings alike flee at his approach, but we leave him finally quite contented with the companionship of Hugh Skunk.

Author(s): Julius King
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Sojo (1934)

Sojo is sleepy all the time, but his Mammy has chores for him every day of the week. Somehow he convinces his animal friends to do all the work for him!

Author(s): Erick Berry
Illustrator(s): Erick Berry

The Travels of Babar (1934)

Babar and Celeste set out in a balloon on their wedding journey and have many exciting adventures.

Author(s): Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s): Jean de Brunhoff

Babar the King (1935)

Babar and the elephants build a beautiful and happy city called Celesteville. But one fateful day a snake arrives.

Author(s): Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s): Jean de Brunhoff

Doctor Dolittle’s Birthday Book (1935)

Each page contains a quotation and picture from the Doctor Dolittle books and space to record birthday reminders.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Johnny Crow’s New Garden (1935)

Further verse adventures with Mr. Crow as he shows his friends his new garden.

Author(s): L. Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Pee-Gloo, A Little Penguin from the South Pole (1935)

The story of a little penguin.

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

Popo the Hippopotamus (1935)

A little hippo who works for the circus, visits the town with his friend the monkey.

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

Who Goes There? (1935)

Two children invite the animals of the forest to a picnic, then observe their tracks in the snow. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

All the Mowgli Stories (1936)

Mowgli was lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. This is a collection of short stories about him.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

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