Books from the 1960s

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*** Caldecott Winner                        * Caldecott Honor
                   (the following year)                                         (the following year)         

The Little Tiny Rooster
by Will and Nicholas

c. 1960
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Weekly Reader 
Book Club Edition

The Tall Grass Zoo
by Winifred and Cecil Lubell

c.1960
Rand McNally & Company
1965 First Cadmus Edition
 by E. M. Hale and Company

I Want to be an
 Airplane Hostess
by Carla Greene
Pictures by  Frances Eckart

c.1960
Children's Press

The Things I Like
by Francoise

c.1960
Charles Scribner & Sons
First Edition

Please Pass the Grass
by Leone Adelson
pictures by Roger Duvoisin

c. 1960
David McKay Company

(Picture coming)

Scrappy the Pup
John Ciardi
Illustrations by Jane Miller

c.1960
J.B. Lippincott Company

*** Once a Mouse          
by Marcia Brown

c 1961
Charles Scribner's Sons
26th printing, paperback

Veronica 
Written and Illustrated
by Roger Duvoisin

c. 1961
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition uncertain, no further dates/printings listed

A Camel in the Tent
Retold by Katherine Evans
Illustrated by the author

1961
Albert Whitman & Company
First Edition

Herman the Loser
By Russell Hoban
pictures by Lillian Hoban

c. 1961
Harper & Brothers
Apparent First Edition-no further editions/printings noted

I Want to be a
 Baseball Player
by Carla Greene
Illustrated by Frances Eckart

c. 1961
Grosset & Dunlap/
Children's Press

*** The Snowy Day       
By Ezra Jack Keats

c. 1962
The Viking Press
Apparent First edition
(no further editions/printings noted)

Mr. Rabbit
 and the Lovely Present
by Charlotte Zolotow
Pictures by Maurice Sendak

c. 1962
Harper & Row Publishers
Apparent First Edition/No further editions/printings noted

Smokey
Written ad Illustrated 
by Bill Peet

c.1962
Houghton Mifflin Company

* All in the Morning Early  
by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Illustrated by Evaline Ness

c. 1963
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Paperback edition

Borka
Written and Illustrated
by John Burningham
First book by this well known author/illustrator
Winner of Kate Greenaway Medal
Biography

c. 1963
Random House
Apparent First Edition
(No further edition/printing dates)

A Tiger Called Thomas
by Charlotte Zolotow
pictures by Kurt Werth

c. 1963
Lothrop Lee & Shepard
Apparent first edition

The Lion and the Rat
A Fable by La Fontaine
Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith

c. 1963
Oxford University Press
First America publication 1963
by Franklin Watts, Inc.

What Time is it
Jeanne-Marie?
by Francoise

1963
Charles Scribner's Sons
First Edition

Hoppy Long Legs
by Katherine J. Carter
Illustrated by Elizabeth Rice

1963
The Steck Company
First Edition

* A Pocketful of Cricket  
by Rebecca Caudill
Illustrated by Evaline Ness

c.1964
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition
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* Rain Makes Applesauce 
by Julian Scheer 
& Marvin Bileck

c. 1964
Holiday House
First Edition

Giant John
Story and Pictures
 by Arnold Lobel

c. 1964
Harper & Row Publishers
Weekly Reader Book Club Edition

Randy's Dandy Lions
Written and Illustrated
by Bill Peet

c.1964
Houghton Mifflin Company
Fifth Printing

Lost in the
 Department Store
Text by Jean E. Laird
Illustrations by Lawrence M. Spiegel

C.1964
T.S. Denison & Company, Inc.
Eleventh printing April 1971

The Beach Before Breakfast
by Maxine W. Kumin
Pictures by Leonard Weisgard

c. 1964
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Sixth Impression

Preep
 The Little Pigeon of
 Trafalgar Square
by Milton Shulman
Illustrated by Dale Maxey

C.1964
Random House
First Edition

*** Always Room              
 for One More
by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

c. 1965
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition

Little Oleg
by Margaret & John Cort

c. 1965
Brockhampton Press Ltd., England
First U.S. edition
1971 by Carolrhoda Books, Inc.

*** Sam, Bangs &           Moonshine
Written and Illustrated
 by Evaline Ness

c. 1966
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition

Mr. Bumba's
Tuesday Club
by Pearl Augusta Harwood
Pictures by Joseph Folger

c. 1966
Lerner Publications Company
First Edition

*The Emperor and the Kite
by Jane Yolen
Pictures by Ed Young

c. 1967
The World Publishing Company
Apparent First Edition

Potatoes Potatoes
by Anita Lobel

c. 1967
Harper & Row, Publishers
Apparent First Edition

All Kinds of Babies
Millicent E. Selsam
Pictures by Symeon Shimin

text c. 1953, 1967
illustrations c. 1967
Scholastic Book Services

When Will I Whistle?
by Mary McBurney Green
Pictures byHarold Berson

c. 1967
Franklin Watts
First Edition

*Thy Friend, Obadiah
Written and Illustrated
 by Brinton Turkle

c. 1969
The Viking Press
Apparent First Edition

The Mouse
 and the Elephant
by Barbara K. Walker 
and Naki Tezel
Illustrated by Emily A. McCully

c. 1969
Parent's Magazine Press
Apparent First Edition

Joey's Cat
by Robert Burch
Illustrated by Don Freeman

c.1969
The Viking Press
Apparent First Edition

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