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* In the Night Kitchen
Maurice Sendak

c.1970
Harper & Row
Apparent First Edition
No further editions/
printings noted 

In a Window on
Greenwater Street
by D.J.(Dori) Chaconas
Illustrated by Carroll Dolezal

C.1970
Steck-Vaughn Company
First Edition

The Zow-Binger
by Betty Woods
Illustrated by Eleanor Anne Lanahan

c.1970
Charles Scribner's Son's

Listen! Listen
Words by Ann Rand
Pictures by Paul Rand

c. 1970
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
First Edition

The Beaver Pond
by Alvin Tresselt
Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

c. 1970
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition

The Terrible Tiger
by Jack Prelutsky
Pictures by Arnold Lobel

c. 1970
The Macmillan Company
First Printing

The Dirt Road
by Carol and Donald Carrick

1970
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc
3rd printing

Steffie and Me
by Phyllis Hoffman
Pictures by
 Emily Arnold McCully

c. 1970
Harper & Row Publishers
Apparent First Edition

Michael is Brave
by Helen E. Buckley
Illustrated by Emily McCully

c. 1971
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
 Company
Apparent First edition

Hurray for Captain Jane!
Story by Sam Reavin
Pictures by 
Emily Arnold McCully

c. 1971
Parents Magazine Press
Apparent First Edition

Benjy and the
 Barking Bird
by Margaret Bloy Graham

c. 1971
Harper & Row
Weekly Reader 
Book Club Edition

Turtle Pond
by Berniece Freschet
Illustrated by Donald Carrick

c. 1971
Charles Scribner's Sons
Apparent First Edition

There's One 
in Every Bunch
Robert and Claire Wiest

c. 1971
Children's Press
First Edition

Now That Day's
Are Colder
by Aileen Fisher
Designed and Illustrated
 by Gordon Laite
Lettering by Paul Taylor

c. 1973
Bomar Nature Series
 The way of Animals
second Printing

The Cool Ride in the Sky
Told by Diane Wolkstein
Paul Galdone drew the pictures

c. 1973
Alfred A. Knopf
Weekly Reader 
Book Club Edition

The Steamroller
A Fantasy Written 
by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by Evaline Ness

c.1974
22 years after Brown's death
 by her sister, Roberta Rauch
Walker and Company
First Edition

The Queen Who Couldn't  Bake Gingerbread
by Dorothy Van Woerkom
Illustrated by Paul Galdone

c. 1975
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition

Morris's
 Disappearing Bag
A Christmas Story by Rosemary Wells

c. 1975
The Dial Press
First Printing

Hamilton
by Robert Newton Peck
Illustrated by Laura Lydecker

c. 1976
Little, Brown and Company
Weekly Reader 
Book Club Edition

The Bed Book
by Sylvia Plath
Pictures by
 Emily Arnold McCully

c. 1976 by Ted Hughes
Harper & Row, Publishers
1989 Trumpet Club, 
 paperback edition

Max

story and pictures
 by Rachel Isadora

c. 1976
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
First Edition

I Wish I Was Sick, Too!
by Franz Brandenberg
Illustrated by Aliki

c. 1976
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

The Potter's Kitchen
by Rachel Isadora

c. 1977
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

The Foundling
by Carol Carrick
Pictures by Donald Carrick

c. 1977
Houghton Mifflin/Clarion
Third printing

Walter
by Laura Joffe Numeroff

c. 1978
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
First Edition

Tooley! Tooley!
by Frank Modell

c. 1979
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

Ookie-Spooky
by Mirra Ginsburg
(Based on a story by
Korney Chukovshy)
Illustrated by Emily McCully

c. 1979
Crown Publishers, Inc.
First Edition

The King at the Door
by Brock Cole

c. 1979
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
First Edition

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