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A Pipkin of Pepper (2005)
A cat, a squirrel, a duck, pumpkin soup, but not salt … and pepper?
Author(s):
Helen Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Helen Cooper
Asterix the Gaul (1969)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
The Maggie B (1975)
Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Morse
The Tailor of Gloucester (1903)
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
Excuse Me! Certainly! (1959)
Willie finds that politeness is important.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Jimmy’s Boa Bounces Back (1984)
Jimmy should have known better than to bring his boa to a garden party. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Trinka Noble
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Cowboy Kitten (1949)
Theodore kitten pays a visit to his grandmother, but grandfather really understands him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome, Photographs
The Foxbury Force and the Ghost (1997)
Author(s):
Graham Oakley
Illustrator(s):
Graham Oakley
The Moon Tenders (1958)
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Tony Madia
Feed the Animals (1944)
Lift the flap to see which animal the keeper will feed next.
Read online at archive.org.
A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred (1928)
A story of village life at the turn of the twentieth century based on the author’s own childhood.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
King Arthur and His Knights (1924)
This version of the story of King Arthur is taken from Malory by an expert in medieval literature.
Author(s):
Philip Allen
Illustrator(s):
John Neill, Mead Schaeffer
Young Hornblower (1960)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Ginger Pye (1951)
When their new puppy, Ginger, disappears the Pye’s suspect the man in the yellow hat may be the thief.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Eleanor Estes
Don Camillo Takes the Devil by the Tail (1957)
The fourth collection of stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.
Author(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
Illustrator(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book (1989)
Running for ten years, from 1985 to 1995, the adventures of Calvin and his tiger friend Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
Author(s):
Bill Watterson
Illustrator(s):
Bill Watterson
Time and Mr. Bass: A Mushroom Planet Book (1967)
Chuck and David are drawn into a battle against evil as Mr. Bass searches for the stolen necklace of Ta that can protect the Mycetians from destruction.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Fred Meise