Animal Fantasy Genre
Books in the Animal Fantasy genre:
Zephir’s Holidays (1937)
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Andy and the Lion (1938)
A little boy named Andy was interested in lions. On his way to school, he met a real lion with a thorn stuck in its paw.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Babar and His Children (1938)
Babar and Celeste have triplets. The smallest, Alexander, has a knack for getting into predicaments.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Babar at Home (1938)
Babar and Celeste have triplets. The smallest, Alexander, has a knack for getting into predicaments.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Donkey Beads: A Tale of a Persian Donkey (1938)
Olagh, a proud grey donkey with long stiff ears, wants a master who will let him eat raisins, sleep in a bed of petunia blossoms, and bathe him with rose water. But his master does none of the sort, so Olagh runs away in search of a new one.
Author(s):
Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Moo-Wee the Musk-Ox (1938)
The musk-ox is in an adventure with human beings when he is captured and kept as a pet by an Eskimo lad.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938)
Author(s):
Florence Atwater
Richard Atwater
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Streamlined Pig (1938)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Bambi’s Children (1939)
The sequel to Bambi follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his cousin Faline as they grow from fawns through adulthood.
Author(s):
Felix Salten
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ben and Me (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939)
Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.
Author(s):
DuBose Heyward
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
The Curious Lobster's Island (1939)
Mr. Lobster, Mr. Bear and Mr. Badger embark on a new adventure.
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Author(s):
Richard Warren Hatch
Illustrator(s):
Marion Freeman Wakeman
Ekorn (1939)
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Author(s):
Claes Leonard Hultgren
Haakon Lie
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Happy Flute (1939)
A Hindu tale of a hermit and the jungle animals.
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Author(s):
Sant Ram Mandal
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Little Pig’s Picnic, and Other Stories (1939)
Ten stories based on Disney cartoons, including The Old Mill, the first to be shot on the multiplane camera.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Walt Disney Studio
Wiggins for President (1939)
The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Later published as Freddy the Politician.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Babar and Father Christmas (1940)
Babar’s children hear of Father Christmas who brings joy and toys to little children. Can Babar find a way to bring him to the Elephants’ country?
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Freddy’s Cousin Weedly (1940)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
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