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Books about Furry Animals

 

Fiction

Angelina Ballerina, by Katharine Holabird, illustrated by Helen Craig

Pleasant Company Publications, 2000

Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter

Penguin USA, 1997

Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1976

City Mouse and Country Mouse, by Rozanne Lanczak Williams, illustrated by Nan Brookes

Creative Teaching Press, Inc., 1994

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin

Simon and Schuster Children’s, 2000

Hogsel and Gruntel and Other Animal Stories, by Dick King-Smith, illustrated by Michael Terry

Scholastic, Inc., 1999

Little Elephant’s Walk, by Adrienne Kennaway

HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1992

The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1991

The Sleepytime Book, by Jan Wahl, illustrated by Arden Johnson

Morrow, William and Co., 1992


Nonfiction

A Tale of Tails, by Anthony Mills Vitthal

Findhorn Press, Inc., 1995

Baby Animals, by Angela Royston, illustrated by Jane Cradock-Watson and Dave Hopkins

Simon and Schuster Children’s, 1992

Guess What I’ll Be, by Ann Axworthy

Candlewick Press, 1998

Our Amazing Animal Friends, by Gene S. Stuart

National Geographic Society, 1996

Whose Baby Am I? By John Butler

Viking, 2001


Humor

Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People, by Judi Barrett, illustrated by Ron Barrett

Simon and Schuster Children’s, 1989

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, by Judi Barrett, illustrated by Ron Barrett

Simon and Schuster Children’s, 1989

Syd Hoff’s Animal Jokes, by Syd Hoff

HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1986

Zoodles, by Bernard Most

Harcourt, 1992


Poetry

A Hippopotamusn’t and Other Animal Verses, by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Victoria Chess

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1994

Alphabestiary: Animal Poems from A to Z, edited by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Allan Eitzen

Boyds Mills Press, 1994

Animal Lullabies, by Pamela Conrad, illustrated by Richard Cowdrey

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997

Animals on Parade: Animal Poems for Children, by Sara Willoughby-Herb and Steven Herb, compiled with the assistance of Charlotte M. Klein and James T. Zullinger

Continental Press, 1991

Monkeys Write Terrible Letters: and Other Poems, by Arnold Spilka

Boyds Mills Press, 1994

Ridicholas Nicholas: More Animal Verses, by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Victoria Chess

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1995


Animal Books Especially for Parents

Guide to the 400 Best Children’s and Adult’s Multicultural Books about Animals, by Anna Dunwell Friedler

Lift Every Voice, 1997

I Wonder Why Camels Have Humps: And Other Questions about Animals, by Anita Ganeri

Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, Inc., 1997

I Wonder Why Kangaroos Have Pouches: And Other Questions about Baby Animals, by Jenny Wood

Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, Inc., 1996

I Wonder Why the Dodo is Dead: And Other Questions about Extinct and Endangered Animals, by Andy Charman

Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, Inc., 1996

Why Do Cats’ Eyes Glow in the Dark?: And Other Questions Kids Ask About Animals, by Joanne Settel and Nancy Baggett, illustrated by Linda Tunney

Atheneum, 1988

Why Do Cows Moo?: And Other Farm Animal Questions, by Catherine Ripley, illustrated by Scot Ritchie

Firefly Books, Ltd., 1998


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