Moose to Quoll
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
M is for Mouse
Pinkney, Jerry. The Lion & the Mouse. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection
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
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
N is for Nightingale
Andersen, Hans Christian. [Uncorrected colorproof of The Nightingale / adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.]
From the Atha Tehon Thiras Collection
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!
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)!
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!
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
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