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Note: Books from the Beginner Books and Bright and Early Books
series by Random house show the ID # assigned to the title.

B-1
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss

A "Beginner Book"

c. 1957
Houghton Mifflin/
Random House

 

Little Bear
 by Else Holmelund
 Minarik
Pictures by 
Maurice Sendak

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1957
Harper & Row Publishers

 

Danny and
 the Dinosaur
Story and Pictures
 by Syd Hoff

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1958
Harper & Row 


B-2
The Cat in the Hat
 Comes Back
by Dr. Seuss

A "Beginner Book"

c. 1958
Houghton Mifflin

 

No Fighting, 
No Biting
by Else Holmelund 
Minarik 
Pictures by 
Maurice Sendak

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1958
Harper & Row

 

B-3
A Fly Went By
by Mike Mclintock
Illustrated by Fritz Siebel

A "Beginner Book"

c. 1958
Random House

 

 

B-6
Sam and
the Firefly
Written and Illustrated 
by P. D. Eastman

A "Beginner Book"

c. 1958
Random House


B-10
Stop That Ball!
by Mike McClintock
Illustrated 
by Fritz Siebel

A "Beginner Book"

c. 1959
Random House 

 

Father Bear 
Comes Home
by Else Holmelund
 Minarik
Pictures by 
Maurice Sendak

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1959
Harper & Row Publishers

 

Emmett's Pig
by Mary Stolz
Pictures by
 Garth Williams

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1959 
Harper & Row Publisher

 

Last One Home 
Is a Green Pig
by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Pictures by Clement Hurd

An I Can Read Book

c, 1959
Harper & Row

 

Sammy 
the Seal
Story and Pictures
 by Syd Hoff

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1959
Harper & Row Publishers

 

Seeds 
and More Seeds

by Millicent  E. Selsam Pictures by 
Tomi Ungerer

A "Science I Can Read" book

c. 1959
Harper & Row Publishers

 

Julius
Story and Pictures
 by Syd Hoff

An "I Can Read" book

c. 1959
Harper & Row Publishers

 

 

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