Moose to Quoll

Moose: <em>The Moose</em>

M is for Moose

Herbert, Agnes. The Moose. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1913.

From the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness

Mouse: <em>The Lion &amp; the Mouse</em>

M is for Mouse

Pinkney, Jerry. The Lion & the Mouse. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection

Mules: [Annotated Paste-Up of Jake and Honeybunch go to Heaven.]

M is for Mule

Zemach, Margot. [Annotated Paste-Up of Jake and Honeybunch go to Heaven.]

Zemach, Margot. Jake and Honeybunch go to Heaven. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982.

From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection

Octopus: <em>Fish I Have Met and Et</em>

O is for Octopus

Grossman, Rita. Fish I Have Met and Et. Coral Gables: Glade House, 1944.

From the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness

Nightengale

N is for Nightingale

Andersen, Hans Christian. [Uncorrected colorproof of The Nightingale / adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.]

From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection

Owls: <em>Filocolo</em>

O is for Owl

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Filocolo. Impresso in Venetia : Per Pelegrino Pasquale da Bologna, [24 Dec. 1488]

Inc B-744

There are a few lovely little sketches in the margins of this volume, but this is one of our favorites!

Owls: <em>Whoo-Whoo, the "Howl" of the Ozarks says: Think and Wink!</em>

O is for Owl

Marinoni, Rosa. Whoo-Whoo, the “Howl” of the Ozarks says: Think and Wink! [Arkansas: Privately Printed, n.d.]

From the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness

This is another volume over which we struggled … so many delightful owls and one really great cat (with poem)!

Pigs: <em>Sylvester and the Magic Pebble</em> material

P is for Pigs

[Newspaper article about censorship of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.]

Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. New York: Windmill Books, 1969.

From the Steig Collection

There was quite a bit of consternation that the police officers were pigs in the story of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.  It turns out that William Steig just liked to draw pigs!

Polar Bear: <em>Ice King</em>

P is for Polar Bear

Byrd, Ernestine N. Ice King. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965.

From the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness

Quoll: Marie Angel's Exotic Alphabet

Q is for Quoll

Angel, Marie. Marie Angel’s Exotic Alphabet. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992.

From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection