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Books from the 1950s
(Sorted by copyright date of Illustrations. Click on image to see sample pages)

*** Caldecott Winner                * Caldecott Honor

1950

NEW
***The Egg Tree
by Katherine Milhous

c. 1950
Charles Scribner & Sons


 

NEW
*Dick Whittington 
and His Cat
by Marcia Brown

c. 1950
Charles Scribner & Sons
(1997 Simon & Schuster Ed.)

 

The Quiet 
Noisy Book

by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures 
by Leonard Weisgard

c. 1950
Harper & Row, Publishers
First/Early Edition

No further editions/
printings noted

 

Who Dreams
of Cheese
by Leonard Weisgard

c.1950
Charles Scribner's Sons
1st Cadmus Edit. (1963)

 

 

Petunia
by Roger Duvoisin

c.1950
Alfred A. Knopf
Weekly Reader
 Book Club Edition

 

 

NEW
The Doll's 
Christmas
by Tasha Tudor

c. 1950
Oxford University Press
(Henry Z. Walck, Inc. 
paperback edition)

 

NEW
The Too Little
 Fire Engine
Story and Pictures 
by Jane Flory

c. 1950
Wonder Books
(2015 Grosset & Dunlap edition)

 

Follow the Wind
by Alvin Tresselt
Pictures 
by Roger Duvoisin

c. 1950
Lothrop, Lee & 
Shepard Co., Inc.
Ninth Printing, 
October 1964

 


The Chosen Baby
by Valentina P. Wasson
Illustrated by 
Hildegarde Woodward

c. 1950 (Illust.)
c. 1939 (text)
J.B. Lippincott Company

 

The Big Book of
Cowboys
Written and Illustrated
by Sydney E. Fletcher

c. 1950
Grosset & Dunlap


NEW
I'm Growing
by Sara G. Klein
Illustrated by Janet Smalley

c. 1950
The Westminster Press

 

Blaze Finds the
Trail 
by C. W. Anderson

c. 1950
The Macmillan Co.
1960 Book
Club Edition

 




The First Book
 of Indians
by Benjamin Brewster
Pictures
by Ursula Koering

c. 1950
Franklin Watts, Inc.
Sixteenth Printing

Michigan
Story by Bernadine Bailey
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1950
Albert Whitman and Company
First Edition

 

Colorado
Story by Bernadine Bailey
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1950
Albert Whitman and Company
First Edition


North Carolina
Story by Bernadine Bailey
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1950
Albert Whitman and Company
First Edition

 

1951

* Skipper John's Cook
by Marcia Brown

c.1951
Junior Literary Guild and
 Charles Scribner and Son's
First Edition, 
first printing
 (letter A under Copyright)
Further links about Author:
Images from Collection
Marcia Brown

*Bear Party
by William Pene Du Bois

c. 1951
The Viking Press



 

 

Fox Eyes
by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by 
Garth WiIliams

c. 1951
Pantheon

 

 

 

Little Shepherd 
by Anobel Armour 
Illustrated by 
Bill and Bernard Martin

c. 1951 Tell-Well Press

 

 

 

The Summer
Noisy Book
Story by
Margaret Wise Brown
 Pictures by
Leonard Weisgard

c. 1951
Harper & Row

 

Airplane Stories
by Marion Conger
 Pictures by Harlow Rockwell

c. 1951
Simon and Schuster

 

 

Pussy Willow
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Leonard Weisgard

c.1951
Golden Press
B Printing

 

 

Tim and the 
Tool Chest

by Jerrold Beim
 Illustrated by
Tracy Sugarman

c. 1951
William Morrow & Co.
Eleventh Printing

 

Patrick and the 
Golden Slippers
by Katherine Milhous

c. 1951
Charles Scribner's Sons
Apparent First Edition

 


Wildcat
Story by 
Sherry De Volld Ball

c. 1951
The Erle Press

 

 

The Busy Man
Written and Illustrated
 by Vana Earle

c.1951
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc.
Second Printing
September 1953


 

Kippie the Cow
by Esther Gretor
Translated from the Danish
 by Kurt Singer
Illustrated by Getterman

c. 1951
Jullian Messner
Special Cadmus Books Ed.
 by E.M. Hale and Company

 

Minn of the
 Mississippi
Holling Clancy Holling

c. 1951
Houghton Mifflin Co.


 

1952

***The Biggest Bear
by Lynd Ward

c. 1952
Houghton Mifflin Co.



*One Morning
in Maine
by Robert McCloskey

c. 1952
Viking Press


*The Storm Book
by Charlotte Zolotow
Pictures by
 Margaret Bloy Graham

c. 1952
Harper & Row Publishers


* Five Little Monkeys
Story and Illustrations
By Juliet Kepes

c. 1952
Houghton Mifflin Co.
First Edition


NEW
Follow the Sunset
by Herman & Nina Schneider
Pictures by Lucille Corcos

c. 1952
The Junior Literary Guild
 and Doubleday & Co., Inc
First Edition

Petunia's
 Christmas
Story and Pictures
by Roger Duvoisin

 c. 1952
Alfred A. Knopf
Scholastic paperback

One Kitten 
Too Many

by Bianca Bradbury 
and Marie C. Nichols

1952
Houghton Mifflin

 

The Little 
Fireman
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by
 Esphyr Slobodkina

c. 1952
Young Scott Books (illus.)
text c. 1938





NEW
The Ten Commandments
Edited by Mary Alice Jones
Cover Illustrations by Mary Murray
Inside Illustrations by Dorothy Grider

c. 1952
The Macmillan Co.

 

Christmas
 in the Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by
 Barbara Cooney

c. 1952
Harper & Row

 

NEW
Where Have You Been?
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Barbara Cooney

c. 1952
Hastings House/Scholastic

 

NEW
When the Mississippi
 Was Wild
by Le Grand

c. 1952
The Macmillan Co.

 




Happy Easter
by Kurt Wiese

c. 1952
Viking Penguin
(1991 scholastic 
paperback edition)

 

 

NEW
The First Book
 of Negroes
by Langston Hughes
Pictures b Ursula Koering

c. 1952
Franklin Watts, Inc.
Stated First Printing

 

Fast Is Not a
Ladybug

c. 1952
William R. Scott, Inc.
Cadmus edition by 
E.  M. Hale and Co.

 

 

NEW
More Rupert Adventures
A Daily Express Publication

c. 1952
London Express Newspaper

 

 

St. George's Day
in Williamsburg
By Edith Thatcher Hurd
 and Clement Hurd

c. 1952
Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Apparent First Edition
No further editions/
printings noted

1953

***Madeline's
Rescue 
Story and Pictures
by Ludwig Bemelmans

c. 1953
Viking Press
(10th printing 1966)

*A Very Special House
by Ruth Krauss
Pictures by Maurice Sendak

c. 1953
Harper & Row, Publishers
1970 Scholastic
 Paperback edition

*Journey Cake, Ho!
by Ruth Sawyer
Illustrated by
 Robert McCloskey

c. 1953
Viking Press

 

Tim in Danger
by Edward Ardizzone

c.1953
 Henry Z Walck, Inc.
Edition uncertain,

No further editions/
printings noted


Cotton Top
by Jean O'Neill

c. 1953
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition





The Sailor Dog
By Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Garth Williams

c. 1953
Western Publishing Co.
renewed, 1981 edition


 

Snow 
for Christmas

Story by Vernon Bowen
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1953
David McKay Company
Special Cadmus Edition by
 E. M. Hale and Company


Michael's Friends
by Rose Dobbs
Pictures by Flavia Gag

c. 1953
Coward-McCann, Inc.
Spec. Cadmus Books edit.
 by E. M. Hale and Co.


NEW
Noddy 
at the Seaside
by Enid Blyton
Pictures by Beek

c. 1953
Purnell Books, Great Britain
(1990 edit., The MacDonald Group)

NEW
Walt Disney's 
Pinocchio 
Pictures by 
the Walt Disney Studio
Adapted by Al Dempster
Story Adapted by Steffi Fletcher
Based on the Story by Collodi

c. 1953
Western Publishing



NEW
Finnegan II 
His Nine Lives
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Illustrated by Kate Seredy

c. 1953
The Viking Press

 

The Book of 
Clowns
by Felix Sutton
Pictures by 
James Schucker

c. 1953
Grosset & Dunlap

 

The Little Steamroller
by Graham Greene
Ilustrated by
Dorothy Craigie

c. 1953
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
Cadmus Edition by 
E. M. Hale & Co.

 

NEW
The Journey of 
Josiah Talltatters
Story by Josephine Balfour Payne
Pictures by Joan Balfour Payne

c. 1952
The Junior Literary Guild 
and Ariel Books.

 

1954



*** Cinderella or
The Little
Glass Slipper
by Marcia Brown

c. 1954
 Charles Scribner's Sons
Edition uncertain,

No further editions/
printings noted
Further links about Author:
Images from Collection
Marcia Brown

 

*The Thanksgiving
Story
by Alice Dalgliesh 
Illustrated by Helen Sewell

c. 1954
Renewed 1982
Charles Scribner's Sons
Scholastic edition,
 paperback



 

Mike's House
by Julia L. Sauer
Illustrated
 by Don Freeman

c. 1954
The Viking Press




 

The Little Engine That Could
The Complete Original Edition
Retold by Watty Piper
 Illustrated by
George & Doris Hauman

c. 1954/1961
Platt & Munk Publishers/
Grosset  & Dunlap


 

Wish Around
the World
Written and  illustrated
 by Vana Earle

c. 1954
David Mc Cay Company
Special Cadmus Edition
 E. M. Hale and Company





 

The Happy Lion
by Louise Fatio
Pictures by 
Roger Duvoisin

1954
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
7th printing


The Tall Book
of Christmas 
Selected by 
Dorothy Hall Smith

Pictures by 
Gertrude Elliot Espencheid

c. 1954
Harper & Brothers, Inc.


The Little Fir Tree
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by
 Barbara Cooney

c. 1954
by Roberta Rauch 
and Bruce Bliven Jr.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.

 

A Little House
of Your Own
by Beatrice Schenk  De Regniers
Drawings by Irene Hass

c. 1954
Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc.


Horton Hears
a Who!
by Dr. Seuss

c. 1954
Random House


 

 


 

Babar's Fair 
by Laurent De Brunhoff
Translated fro the French
by Merle Haas

c. 1954
Random House



Look Out, 
Mrs. Doodlepunk! 
Written and Illustrated 
by Dorothy L. Dodworth

c. 1954
William R. Scott, Inc.


NEW
Fish Head
by Jean Fritz
Illustrated 
by Marc Simont

c. 1954
Coward, McCann & 
Geoghegan, Inc


Beady Bear
Story and Pictures
 by Don Freeman

c. 1954
The Viking Press
14th Printing



The Swans of  
Ballycastle
by  Walter Hackett 
Illustrated by Bettina

C. 1954
Ariel Books/
Farrar, Straus & Young, Inc.


Nine Lives
or
The Celebrated Cat
 of Beacon Hill
by Edward Fenton
Illustrated by Paul Galdone

c. 1954
Panheon

 

The Big Book
of Cats 

by Gladys Emerson Cook
 and Felix Sutton 
Illustrations by 
Gladys Emerson Cook

c. 1954
Grosset & Dunlap

 

NEW
The Kitten Who Thought He Was
 a Mouse
by Miriam Norton
Pictures by Garth Williams

c. 1954
Golden Press

 

My Easy-to-Read
 True Book of Insects
by Illa Podendorf
Illustrated by
Chauncey Maltman

c. 1954
Children's Press, 
Grosset and Dunlap Pub.
First Edition

 

Lassie Come Home
by Eric Knight
Abridged by Felix Sutton
Illustrations by
Hans H. Helweg

c. 1954
Grosset & Dunlap

 

Tough Enough
by Ruth and Latrobe Carroll

c. 1954
Oxford University Press
2nd printing, 1955

 

Little Island Star
by Melvern Barker

c. 1954
Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Special Cadmus Books edition
 by E. M. Hale and Co.

 

The Runaway
Chimps
by Cathrine Barr

c. 1954
Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Apparent First Edition

 

The Juggler of
Notre Dame
Retold and Illustrated 
by Mary Fidelis Todd

1954
Whittlesey House/
McGraw-Hill

 

1955

 

***Frog Went-a-Courtin'
Retold by John Langstaff
Pictures by 
Feodor Rojankovsky

c. 1955
Harcourt

 

*Crow Boy
by Taro Yashima

c. 1955
The Viking Press


 

*Play With Me
 by Marie Hall Ets

c. 1955
Viking Press

 

 

Mop Top
Story and Pictures 
by Don Freeman

c. 1955
The Viking Press

 

Parsley
by Ludwig Bemelmans

c. 1955
Harper & Row,
Publishers 

 

Brave Davy Coon
Story and Pictures
by Laurence Hyde

c. 1955
Harper & Brothers
Apparent First Edition


NEW
My Happy Book
 On the Farm
by Doeisha

c. 1955
S. S. Kresge Co.

 

Mr. Bear Goes
To Boston

by Marion Flood French
Pictures by Lisl Weil

c. 1955
Follett Publishing Co.

 

NEW
Eloise
by Kay Thompson
Drawings by Hilary Knight

c. 1955
Simon and Schuster


 

NEW
The Duchess 
Bakes a Cake
Written and Illustrated 
by Virginia Kahl

c. 1955
Charles Scribner's Sons


Daffy Taffy
Written and Illustrated
 by Paul Brown

c. 1955
Charles Scribner's Sons
First Edition
First printing 
(A under copyright)

 

NEW
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Illustrated by Gavy

c. 1955
Rand McNally & Co.

 

 

I Play
at the Beach
by Dorothy Koch
Pictures by
Feodor Rojankovsky

c. 1955
Holiday House
First Edition

 

The Poppy Seeds
by Clyde Robert Bulla
Illustrated by Jean Charlot

c. 1955
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.




 

Your Kitten
Written by 
Polly and Larry Foster
Illustrated by
 Mary Latham

c. 1955
Melmont Publishers

Spiders
by Dorothy Childs Hogner
Illustrated by Nils Hogner

c. 1955


 

What Can You Do 
With a Shoe?
by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Pictures by Maurice Sendak

c. 1955
Margaret K. McElderry

 

Columbus
by Ingrid & Edgar D'Aulaire

c. 1955
Doubleday & Co. 



1956


 

 


***A Tree Is Nice
by Janice May Udry
Pictures by Marc Simont

c. 1956


*Anatole 
by Eve Titus
Pictures by Paul Galdone

c. 1956
McGraw Hill
paperback edition

 

* 1 is One         
by Tasha Tudor

c. 1956 
by Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Rand McNally & Co.
Paperback



Harry the Dirty Dog
by Gene Zion
Pictures by
 Margaret Bloy Graham

c. 1956
Harper & Row


Coco is Coming
by Betty Peckinpah
Pictures by Mariana

c.1956
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc


 

Madeline and 
the Bad Hat
Written and Illustrated 
by Ludwig Bemelmans

c. 1956
The Viking Press
1968 paperback edition

 

The Elephant
and the Flea
by Alain

c. 1958
Whittlessey House/
McGraw-Hill Co., Inc.
Apparent 1st Edition


NEW
Maxie 
Written and Illustrated 
by Virginia Kahl

c. 1955
Charles Scribner's Sons.

 

 

The Clock
   by Esphyr Slobodkina

c.1956
   Abelard-Schuman
   First edition

 

 

Babar and 
the Professor
 
by Laurent De Brunhoff
Translated from the French
by Merle Haas

c. 1956
Random House

 


Burrito
Story and Pictures
 by Robin King

c.1956
E.P. Dutton & Co.
First Edition

 

 

Windy and the
Willow Whistle
by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Illustrated by
Clement Hurd

 c. 1956
Sterling Publishing
Apparent 1st Edition



The Little Red Engine
 and the Rocket
Story by Diana Ross
Pictures by Leslie Wood

c.1956
Faber and Faber Limited



 

Home for a Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Garth Williams

c. 1956
Golden Press
A Big Golden Book
See also
A Little Golden Book Edition



NEW
Mickey Mouse and the Missing Mouseketeers
Story by 
Annie North Bedford
Adapted by Julius Svendsen
 and Bob Totten
lllustrated by 
Walt Disney Studios

c. 1956
Reader's Digestand McNally & Co.



Edward Lear's 
Nonsense Book
Selected and Illustrated
by Tony Palazzo

c. 1956
Garden City Books
First Edition

 

I Know a Lot
of Things
by Ann and Paul Rand

c.1956
Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Apparent 1st edition

 

 

The Little Fish 
That Got Away
Story by Bernadine Cook
Pictures by 
Crockett Johnson

c. 1956
Scholastic Book Services


Come To
the Country
Written and Illustrated
by Grace Paull

c. 1956
Abelard Schuman

 

 

Mickey's Magnet
Franklyn M. Branley
and Eleanor K. Vaughn
Pictures by 
Crocket  Johnson

c. 1956
Harper &Row

 

 


My Puppy
Written by
Polly & Larry Foster

 c. 1956
Melmont Publishers
Apparent 1st Edition

 

Janey and the 
Summer Dance Camp
by Regina J. Woody
Illustrated by
Arline K. Thomson

c. 1956
Alfred A. Knopf

 

NEW
Harold's Fairy Tale
by Crockett Johnson

c. 1956
HarperCollins
(2000 Scholastic edition)


The Blue-Nosed
 Witch
by Margaret Embry
Pictures by Carl Rose

c. 1956
Holiday House

 

I Want To Be an
Animal Doctor
by Carla Greene
Illustrated 
by Frances Echart

c. 1956
Childrens Press

 

All Ready 
For Summer
by Leon Adelson
Illustrated by
Kathleen Elgin

c. 1956
David McKay Co.
Apparent 1st edition

 

I Want To Be a
Train Engineer
by Carla Greene
Illustrations 
by Victor Havel

c. 1956
Children's Press


The Red Balloon
by Albert Lamorisse

c. 1956
Doubleday & Co., Inc.



Thin Ice
by Jerrold Beim
Pictures by Louis Darling

c. 1956
William Morrow and Co.




1957


 


***Time of Wonder
by Robert McCloskey

c. 1957
The Viking Press



 

Curious George 
Gets a Medal
 by H. A. Rey

c. 1957
 Houghton Mifflin Co.




Big Red Bus
by Ethel and Leonard
Kessler

c. 1957
Doubleday and Co.


 

Archie Angel
by Margot Austin

  c. 1957
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
First Edition



NEW
The Giant 
Nursery Book
Selected and Illustrated 
by Tony Palazzo

c. 1957
Garden City Books

 





Over and Over
by Charlotte Zolotow
Pictures by Garth Williams

c. 1957
Harper & Row




The Farmer and 
His Cows

 by Louise Floethe
Illustrations by
 Richard Floethe

c. 1957
Charles Scribner's Sons

 

Dear Garbage Man
by Gene Zion
Pictures by
Margaret Bloy Graham

c.1957
Harper & Row, Publishers


The Wild
Little House

by Eilis Dillon
Illustrated by V. H. Drummond

c. 1957
Criterion Books
Special Cadmus Edition by
 E. M. Hale and Company

Old Bet
by Ann Colver 
Illustrated by
Tony Palazzo

c. 1957
Alfred A. Knopf



Pantaloni
by Bettina 

c. 1957
Harper & Brothers
Apparent 1st edition

 

 

NEW
Jay's Big Job
by Jerrold Beim
lllustrated by 
Tracy Sugarman

c. 1957
William Morrow and Co.

 

NEW
Terry's Ferry
Story by Marion Belden Cook
Pictures by Erika Weihs

c. 1957
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
First Edition

 

 

The Unhappy
Hippopotamus
Story by Nancy Moore
Pictures 
by Edward Leight

c. 1957
The Vanguard Press

 

 

I Want To Be
a Teacher
by Carla Greene
Illustrations
by Vie Johnson

c. 1957
Children's Press


The Three Billy
Goats Gruff

by P.C. Asbjornsen
and J. E. Moe
Pictures
by Marcia Brown

c. 1957
Harcourt, Brace & World


The Cow Who Fell
in the Canal
by Phyllis Krasilovsky
Illustrated by Peter Spier

c.1957
Doubleday & Co.

 

The True Book
of Houses
by Katherine Carter
Illustrations by
George Rhoads

c. 1957
Children's Press

 

 


The Light
in the Tower
by Joan Howard
Illustrated 
by Adrienne Adams

c. 1957
Lothrop, Lee Shepard

 

The Mellops
Go Flying
by Tomi Ungerer

c. 1957
Harper & Row, Publishers

 

What is a
Chicken
by Gene Darby
Pictures-Lucy and
John Hawkinson

c. 1957
Benefic Press

 

Who Is It?
Written and Illustrated 
by Zhenya Gay

c. 1957
The Viking Press
Apparent first edition

 

Ching-Ting 
and the Ducks
by Marjorie G. Fribourg
with drawings 
by Artur Marokvia

c. 1957
Sterling Publishing
First Cadmus Edition (1963)

 

Lad a Dog
by Albert Payson
Adapted and Abridged
 by Felix Sutton
Illustrations by William
Bartlett and Kathleen Elgin

c. 1957
Grosset & Dunlap


I Want To Be
a Pilot
by Carol Greene

c. 1957
Children's Press


 

A Crow I Know
Story and Pictures 
by Wesley Dennis

c. 1957
The Viking Press
First Cadmus Edition
by E. M. Hale and Co., 1962

 

1958

 


 

***Chanticleer
and the Fox
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Adapted from the
Canterbury Tales
and Illustrated
by Barbara Cooney




*What Do You Say, Dear?
by Sesyle Joslin
Pictures
by Maurice Sendak

c. 1958
W. R. Scott/
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.


* Umbrella
by Taro Yashima

c. 1958
The Viking Press
Eighth Printing
 February 1969



 

Too Many Mittens
by Florence and
Louis Slobodkin 

c. 1958
The Vanguard Press, Inc
Weekly Reader 
Book Club Edition



The Night the Lights Went Out
       by Don Freeman

c. 1958
 The Viking Press
Sixth printing, 1968



 

 

Jo-Jo the 
Talking Crow
Story and Pictures 
by Laura Bannon

c. 1958
Houghton Mifflin Co.
1963 1st Cadmus Ed.


The 
Wonderful Egg
by Dahlov Ipcar

c. 1958
Doubleday & Co.


 

NEW
Eloise at Christmastime
by Kat Thompson
Drawings by Hilary Knight

c. 1958
Simon and Schuster

 

Sir Henry
and the Dragon
Story and Pictures
by Paul D. Cretien, Jr. 

c. 1958
Follett Publishing Co.  


No Rose for 
Harry
by Gene Zion
Pictures by Margaret Bloy Graham

c. 1958
Harper & Row Publishers
Book Club edition

 

 

Petunia Beware
by Roger Duvoisin

c. 1958
Alfred A. Knopf/
Random House

 

 

NEW
Three Little Horses
Blackey, Brownie and Whitey
By Piet Worm

c. 1958
Random House


 

NEW
The Dead Bird
Story by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by Remy Charlip

c. 1958 (ilus.)
c. 1938 (text)
Addison-Wesley


NEW
The Blue Ribbon Puppies
by Crockett Johnson

c. 1958
Harper & Row



NEW
The Man the Boy
and the Donkey
Retold by Katherine Evans
Illustrated by 
the Author

c. 1958
Albert Whitman & Co.

 

The True Book
of Schools
by Benjamin Elkin
Illustrations 
by Katherine Evans

c. 1958
Children's Press

 

Country Mailman
by Jerrold Beim
Illustrated
by Leonard Shortall

c. 1958
William Morrow and Co.

 

I Want To Be
 a Storekeeper
by Carla Greene
Illustrations
by Frances Eckart
 

c. 1958
Children's Press 

 

The Day the
Empire State
Went Visiting
by Helen R. Sattley
Pictures 
by Mary Stevens

c. 1958
Dodd, Mead & Co.

 

Motorcycle Dog
Written and Illustrated
by Jay Hyde Barnum

c. 1958
William Morrow and Co.
1st Cadmus Ed., 1963

 

 

 

The Story of
Holly and Ivy
by Rumer Godden
Illustrated by 
Adrienne Adams

c. 1958
Harper & Row

 

The Faraway 
Christmas
A Story of the
Farallon Islands
by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Illustrated
by Clement Hurd

c. 1958
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

 

Georgie's 
Halloween 

Written and Illustrated 
by Robert Bright

c. 1958
Doubleday & Co., Inc.

 

 

Farm Helpers
by Evelyn Payton
Illustrated
by Peter Ornstein

c. 1958
Melmont Publishers

 

 

Crictor
Story and Pictures 
by Tomi Ungerer

c. 1958
Harper & Row Publishers
Scholastic paperback

 

 

1959

 

NEW
***Nine Days to Christmas 
A Story of Mexico

by Marie Hall Ets 
and Aurora Labastida
 Illustrated by Marie Hall Ets

c. 1959
Viking Press

*The Moon Jumpers
by Janice May Udry
Pictures by
Maurice Sendak

c. 1959
Harper & Row




The Emperor and
the Nightingale
by Hans Christian Andersen
Drawings and Design
by Bill Sokol

c. 1959
Pantheon Books, Inc.



Madeline 
and the Gypsies
by Ludwig Bemelmans

c. 1959
The Viking Press
Paperback edition




The Plant Sitter
by Gene Zion
Pictures by 
Margaret Bloy Graham

c. 1959
Harper & Row Publishers



 






A Little Old Man
by Natalie Norton
Pictures by 
Will Huntington

c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co.
Book Club Edition

 

Norman
the Dorman
by Don Freeman

c. 1959
The Viking Press

 

The Little River
by Ann Rand
Pictures by 
Feodor Rojankovsky

c. 1959
Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Stated 1st edition

 

Peter Piper's
Alphabet
by Marsha Brown

c.1959
Charles Scribner's Sons


The Day Daddy
Stayed Home
by Ethel and Leonard Kessler 

c. 1959
Doubleday & Co., Inc.


Which Witch
Story by Robert Lasson
Pictures by John Teppich

c. 1959 
Partridge Press, Inc.



Timmy and the
Tin-Can Telephone
Franklyn M. Branley & 
Eleanor K. Vaughan
Illustrated by Paul Galdone

c. 1959
Thomas Y. Crowell Co

 

NEW
The Blind Men
 and the Elephant
Retold by Lillian Quigley
Illustrated by Janice Holland

c. 1959
Charles Scribner's Sons

 

Custard 
the Dragon
by Ogden Nash
Pictures by Linell

c. 1959
Little, Brown and Co.


The Valentine Cat
by Clyde Robert Bulla
Illustrated by
Leonard Weisgard

c. 1959
Thomas Y. Crowell Co

 

 

Space Witch
by Don Freeman

c. 1959
The Viking Press
Apparent 1st edition

 

 

The Very
Nice Things
by Jean Merrill
and Ronnie Solbert

c. 1959
Harper & Brothers
Publishers


Happy Birthday
To You
by Dr. Seuss

c. 1959
Random House

 

The Laughing Bird
by Anita Hewett
Pictures by
Anne Marie Jauss

c. 1959
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc



Little Dog Tim
by Elizabeth Laing Stewart

c. 1959
The Reilly & Lee Co.



 

 

Excuse Me!
Certainly
by Louis Slobodkin

c. 1959
The Vanguard Press, Inc.
Apparent 1st edition

 

I Want To Be a
 Ballet Dance
by Carla Greene
Design by Mary Gehr

c. 1959
Children's Press

 

A Trip To Paris
by Terry Shannon
Pictures by 
Charles Payzant


c. 1959
Children's Press


Trick or Treat
by Louis Slobodkin

c. 1959
Collier-Macmillan


 

Birth of an Island
by Millicent E. Selsam
Illustrated by
Winifred Lubell

c. 1959
Harper & Row, Publishers

 

 

There Was Timmy!
by Sally Scott
Pictures by Beth Krush

c. 1959
Harcourt, Brace and Co.


 

I Would Like 
To Be a Pony
 by Dorothy W. Baruch
Pictures by Mary Chalmers

c. 1959
Harper & Row, Publishers

 

I Want To Be
a Mechanic
by Carla Greene
Design by Mary Gehr

c. 1959
Children's Press

 

 


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