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The Quiet Noisy Book
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Leonard Weisgard

c. 1950
Harper & Row, Publishers
Apparent First Edition
No further editions/
printings noted

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

c. 1950
Franklin Watts, Inc.
Sixteenth Printing

Petunia
by Roger Duvoisin

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

Colorado
Story by Bernadine Bailey
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1950
Albert Whitman and Company
First Edition

Michigan
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

Wildcat
Story by Sherry De Volld Ball

c. 1951
The Erle Press

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

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

Patrick and the Golden Slippers
By Katherine Milhous

c. 1951
Charles Scribner's Sons
Apparent First Edition

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 & Company
Eleventh Printing

* 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

The Busy Man
Written and Illustrated
 by Vana Earle

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

  * Five Little Monkeys
Story and Illustrations
By Juliet Kepes

c. 1952
Houghton Mifflin Company
First Edition

  One Kitten Too Many
by Bianca Bradbury 
and Marie C. Nichols

1952
Houghton Mifflin

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

Cotton Top
by Jean O'Neill

c. 1953
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition

Tim in Danger
by Edward Ardizzone

c.1953
 Henry Z Walck, Inc.
Edition uncertain,
No further editions/
printings noted
Further links about author:
Edward Ardizzone Home Page
Edward Ardizzone 

Michael's Friends
by Rose Dobbs
Pictures by Flavia Gag

c. 1953
Coward-McCann, Inc.
Special Cadmus Books edition
 by E. M. Hale an Company

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

A Very Special House
by Ruth Krauss
Pictures by Maurice Sendak

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

The Sailor Dog
By Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Garth Williams

c. 1953
Western Publishing Company
renewed, 1981 edition

The Runaway Chimps
by Cathrine Barr

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

*** Cinderella
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

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 Little Fir Tree
by Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Barbara Cooney

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

Little Island Star
by Melvern Barker

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

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

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

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

c. 1954
The Viking Press

The Happy Lion
by Louise Fatio
Pictures by Roger Duvoisin

1954
McGraw-Hill Book Company
7th printing

Beady Bear
Story and Pictures
by Don Freeman

1954
The Viking Press
14th printing

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

c. 1956
Harper & Row

   The Clock
   by Esphyr Slobodkina

c.1956
    Abelard-Schuman, New York
   First edition

     Further links about author:
     http://www.slobodkina.com/ http://www.slobodkina.com/Bio.htm

Burrito
Story and Pictures
 by Robin King

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

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

c.1956
Faber and Faber Limited

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

Dear Garbage Man
by Gene Zion
Pictures by
Margaret Bloy Graham

c.1957
Harper & Row, Publishers

Archie Angel
by Margot Austin

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

The Farmer and His Cows
by Louise Floethe
Illustrations by Richard Floethe

c. 1957
Charles Scribner's Sons

The Night the Lights Went Out
by Don Freeman

c. 1958
The Viking Press
Sixth printing, 1968

Too Many Mittens
by Florence and Louis Slobodkin

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

* Umbrella
by Taro Yashima

c. 1958
The Viking Press
Eighth Printing February 1969

Peter Piper's Alphabet
by Marsha Brown

c.1959
Charles Scribner's Sons

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