The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale ~ pictures by Ed Arno, 1967
Kenny's Monkey Susan Singer ~ pictures by Harvey Weiss, 1963
The Riddle Kingdomby Rose Wyler ~ pictures by Sylvie Selig, 1967
Congo Book: An African Folktale retold by Mollie Clarke ~ Pictures by Beatrice Darwin, 1968
Indian Two Feet and His Horseby Margaret Kriskey ~ Ezra Jack Keats, 1964
...if you grew up with Abraham Lincolnby Ann McGovern ~ pictures by Brinton Turkle, 1966
Kangaroo Stewby Norman Bridwell, 1978
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6 comments:
i loved the riddle kingdom. and we have the congo boy in the basement! thinking of you...xoxo
I have "if you lived in colonial times" from the "if you" series. Didn't realize there were so many!
Magic Fish is one of my favorites! I love that Ed Arno was an illustrator for New Yorker magazine.
I still laught at the Kangaroo Stew cover... Mmm, kangaroos are so tasty that even the kangaroo on the cover likes it!
Of course the mother of all of these half-sized Scholastics is Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell. (I like the inclusion of the non-Clifford Bridwell here.) At some point, Bridwell redrew all of those early Clifford books, cleaning up his line, and switching from two-color to four-color. I haven't been able to find any information on when that change happened and how many of the books appeared in the earlier rougher format. I have three of them and they're far superior to the Clifford we know today. Anyone have any information on how many appeared in this Scholastic format and when they were redrawn?
I have two of them on my daughter's bookshelf that were mine as a child. Loved them!
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