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Elf Books

1940s


#8036


#8061


#8026


#8029

The Three Bears
Retold by Wallace C. Wadsworth
Illustrated by Tony Brice

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1942
Rand McNally & Co.

 


Coming Soon
The Three Wishes
Retold by Wallace Wadsworth
Cover Picture by Barbara Clyne
Illustrations by Esther Friend

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1945
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Noah's Ark
by Dorothy Bell Briggs
Illustrated by Tony Brice

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1946
Rand McNally & Co.


 

Coming Soon
Mother Goose 
Illustrated by Tony Brice

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1946
Rand McNally & Co


 

1950s
 


#8024

 


#8025


#8307



#8060



#8058

Five Beds for Bitsy
by Ian Munn
Illustrated by  Elizabeth Webbe

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1950
Rand McNally & Co.


Benjie Engie
by Louise Lawrence Devine
Illustrated by Eleanor Corwin

A Junior elf Book

c. 1950
Rand McNally & Co.


Hiawatha
by Marion E. Gridley
Illustrated by Irma WIlde

An Elf Book

c. 1950
Rand McNally & Co.


The Sleeping Beauty
Illustrated by Vivienne Blake

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1951
Rand McNally & Co.



Humpty Dumpty
and other Mother Goose Rhymes
Illustrated by Mary Jane Chase

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1952
Rand McNally & Co.



#474



#8089



#8305



#8013


The Superliner
United States
World's Fastest Liner
by J. Duncan Ford
Illustrated by A. K. Bilder

An Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.

Coming Soon
Ponies
by Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrations by
Elizabeth Webbe

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Coming Soon
Little Lost Angel
by Janet Field Heath
Illustrations by
Janet Laura Scott

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.

 

 

Ten Little Monkeys
by Jessica Potter Broderick
Illustrated by Katherine L. Phillips

A  Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.


My First Book
About Jesus
by Mary Alice Jones
Illustrated by Robert Hatch

An Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.

 


#548



#8076



#8034



#8003

Find the Way
Home
by Jessica Potter Broderick
Illustrated by Beth Wilson

An Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.


Kittens
by Catherine Stahlmann
Illustrated by Marge Opitz

A Start Right Elf Book

c. 1953
Rand McNally & Co.




Farm Pets
by Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrated by 
Katherine L. Phillips

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1954
Rand McNally & Co.


Coming Soon
Mrs. Duck's Lovely Day
Story and Illustrations
 by Vivienne Blake

c. 1955
Rand McNally & Co.
Later edition by
Checkerboard Press/Macmillan




#8045


#8344



#8007



#8011

Mary Had a
Little Lamb
by Louise Lawrence Devine
Illustrated by Eleanor Corwin

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1955
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Pony Express
by Bruce Grant
Illustrated by 
William Timmons

An Elf Book

c. 1956
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Hide-Away Animals
by Mabel Watts
Illustrated by
Mary Jane Chase

A Junior elf Book

c. 1957
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Coming Soon
Little Elephant
by Jessica Potter Broderick
Illustrated by Lucy Ozone

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co.



#8420



#8005



#8035


#8684

Coming Soon
The Twin Puppies
by Helen Wing
Illustrations by
Ruth Bendel

An Elf Book

  c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co


Mailman Mike
by Mabel Watts

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co.






My Animal
Picture Book
by Virginia Hunter
Illustrated by Marge Opitz

A Junior elf Book

c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co.


Tom Thumb
Illustrated by
 Lucille Wallace

An Elf Book

c. 1959
Rand McNally & Co.
(First Cover) 


1960s



#8021



#8068


# 8638

#8087



#8097

My Truck Book
by Mabel Watts
Illustrated by George Wilde

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1960
Rand McNally & Co.


Once Upon a Time
Story of the Frog Prince
Illustrated by Elizabeth Webbe

A Junior elf Book

c. 1960
Rand McNally & Co.


Hansel and Gretel
Illustrations by 
Kay Lovelace Smith
Cover by Sharon Kane

An Elf Book

c. 1960
Rand McNally & Co.

Coming Soon
Little Yellow Chick
by Ian Munn
Illustrated by Helen Adler

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1961
Rand McNally & Co.


Little TIGER
by Mabel Watts
Illustrated by
Jean Tamburine

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1962
Rand McNally & Co.



#8102

#8699


#9009


#8118
Coming Soon
Sunny Meadow Stories
by David Cory
Illustrated by Helen Eagle

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1963
Rand McNally & Co.


When God
Imagined a World
by Jean H. Richards
Illustrated by
June Goldsborough

An Elf Book

c. 1964
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Animal ABC Book
Illustrated by Herbert Kane

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1964
Rand McNally & Co.



The Animals' Bus Ride
by Helen Wing
Illustrated by Irma Wilde

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1965
Rand McNally & Co.



#8019


#8020

#8032

#8041

Farm Animals
by Naoma Zimmerman
Illustrated by Irma Wilde

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Happy Animals' ABC
by Helen Wing
Illustrated by Racey Helps

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Time for a Rhyme
by Ellen Wilkie
Illustrated by Sharon Kane

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Count the Puppies
by Carolyn Dee
Illustrated by Mary Whilldin

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.

 


#8134


#8135


#8141

#8151

The Little Red Boot
by Ruth Dixon
Illustrated by Dorothy Grider

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.


Look! A Parade
by Marjorie Barrows
Illustrated by William Timmins

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.


Beth's Happy Day
by Phyllis Ochocki
Illustrated by
Patti Fenwick

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1966
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Coming Soon
What's In the
Bakery Truck
by Tilden Wells
Illustrated by Joan Drescher

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1967
Rand McNally & Co.

 


#8579


#8158


#8161


#8044
Coming Soon
The Cap That 
Mother Made
A Swedish Fairy Tale
Retold by Alice O'Grady
 and Frances Throop
Illustrated by Esther Friend

A Start-Right Elf book

c. 1967
Rand McNally & Co.

 

My Indian Book
by Bruce Grant
Illustrated by
Jack Merryweather

A Start Right Elf Book

c. 1968
Rand McNally & Co.



 

The Disposal Truck
by Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrated by
Walter and Marie Popp

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1969
Rand McNally & Co.



The Three
Little Pigs
Illustrated 
by Anne Sellers Leaf

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1969
Rand McNally & Co.




1970s-80s



#8066


#8551



#8037



#8038



#8203

The Baby 
Animal Zoo
by Dr. Lester E. Fisher
Illustrated by
Carl and Mary Hauge

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1971
Rand McNally & Co.

 

The Busy Ants
by Karin Clafford Farley
Illustrated 
by Theodore Street

An Elf Book

c. 1973
Rand McNally & Co.


The Story of 
Old King Cole
by Daphne Doward Hogstom
Illustrated by
Anne Sellers Leaf

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1975  
Rand McNally & Co.


Little Max
the Cement Mixer
by Renee Bartkowski
Illustrated by
Robert Doremus

A Start-Right Elf Book

c. 1975
Rand McNally & Co.


Santa's 
Runaway Elf
by Jean Lewis
Illustrated by
Marjorie Cooper

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1977
Rand McNally & Co.



#8200

 
#8202


#6024


#6028
Coming Soon
A Thousand 
Candy Santa
by Daphne Doward Hogstrom
Illustrated by Marilou Wise

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1977
Rand Mcnally & Co.

 

Coming Soon
The Christmas 
Snowman
by Diane Sherman
Illustrated by Sharon Kane

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1977
Rand McNally & Co.

 

Coming Soon 
My First 
Book of Trucks
by Diane Namm
Illustrated by June Goldsborough

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1987
Rand Mcnally & Co.

 

My First 
Book of Poems
Compiled by Nancy Hall
Illustrated by Darcy May

A Junior Elf Book

c. 1987
Checkerboard Press/
Macmillan

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