A List of Don’s Books
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For Children:
1950 Chuggy and the Blue Caboose (by Don and Lydia Freeman), Viking Press.
1953 Pet of the Met (by Don and Lydia Freeman), Viking Press.
Award: The New York Herald Tribune Children’s Spring Book Festival Award.
1954 Beady Bear, Viking Press
1955 Mop Top, Viking Press
1957 Fly High, Fly Low, Viking Press
Award: Caldecott runner-up prize, 1958
1958 The Night the Lights Went Out, Viking Press
1959 Space Witch, Viking Press
1959 Norman the Doorman, Viking Press
Film strip, 1966; Movie, 1971.
1960 Cyrano, the Crow, Viking Press
1961 Come Again Pelican, Viking Press
Awards: Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People, 1962
Nakamori Prize, 1976
1963 Ski Pup, Viking Press
1963 Botts, the Naughty Otter, Golden Gate Junior Books
1964 The Turtle and the Dove, Viking Press
1964 Dandelion, Viking Press
1967 A Rainbow of My Own, Viking Press
1967 The Guard Mouse, Viking Press
1968 Add-a-Line Alphabet, Golden Gate Junior Books
1968 Corduroy, Viking Press
1969 Quiet! There’s a Canary in the Library, Golden Gate Junior Books
1969 Tilly Witch, Viking Press.
1970 Hattie, the Backstage Bat, Viking Press
1970 Forever Laughter, Golden Gate Junior Books
1971 Penguins, of All People, Viking Press
1972 Inspector Peckit, Viking Press
1973 Flash, the Dash, Golden Gate Junior Books
1974 The Paper Party, Viking Press
Award: 1974 Juvenile Award from the Commonwealth Club of California.
1974 The Seal and the Slick, Viking Press
1975 Will’s Quill, Viking Press
1976 The Chalk Box Story, J. B. Lippincott
1976 Bearymore, Viking Press
1978 A Pocket for Corduroy, Viking Press
POSTHUMOUS, written and illustrated by Don Freeman
2000 Gregory’s Shadow, Viking Press
2001 CORDUROY & COMPANY, A Don Freeman Treasury, Viking Press
2003 Manuelo the Playing Mantis , Viking Press (Penguin-Putnam USA)
2005 Earl the Squirrel, Viking Books for Children (Penguin-Putnam USA)
NOTE: Not included in the above list are the Corduroy boardbooks (Corduroy’s Birthday, etc.) published posthumously by Viking Penguin, with illustrations by Lisa McCue and text by Barbara G. Hennesy.
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Books by Don Freeman for Adults
1930’s – 40’s
Don Freeman’s NEWSSTANDS
1945 It Shouldn’t Happen, Harcourt-Brace
“Don Freeman tells in words and pictures one of the most engaging and unusual stories of army and home front life it shouldn’t happen - to a dog.”
1949 Come One, Come All!, Holt Rinehart and Co., New York
Don’s Autobiography of how he grew up and came to New York in the 1920‘s
1955 Skitzy, the Story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid, Published by Don Freeman, John D. Hooper Lithographers, San Francisco, California
See www.donfreeman.info/books
1968 The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Hole, Don Freeman’s Newsstand, Santa Barbara, California
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BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY DON FREEMAN FOR OTHER AUTHORS
1935 William Saroyan, The Saroyan Special, Selected Short Stories, Harcourt Brace
1937 William Saroyan, My Name is Aram, Harcourt Brace
1940 Washington Irving, Knickerbocker’s History of New York, Heritage Press, New York. (24 lithographs by Freeman, Printed by George C. Miller)
- Hugh Richmond, Mr. Beamish, Coward-McCann
1943 William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, Harcourt-Brace
1944 US Navy Our Flying Navy, Office of Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations. (12 paintings, 4 drawings by
Freeman, plus works of 7 other artists), MacMillan.
1945 James Thurber, The White Deer, Harcourt-Brace
1951 Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, Harcourt-Brace
- Myra Richardson, Finders Keepers, Viking Press
- Scott Corbett, Sauce for the Gander, Thomas Y. Crowell, Co.
1954 Julia L. Bauer, Mike’s House, Viking Press
- Elizabeth Philbrook, Hobo Hill, Viking Press
- Astrid Lindgren, Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously, Viking Press
1955 June Randolph, The Circus in Peter’s Closet, Thomas Y. Crowell, Co.
1956 Ann Nolan Clark, Third Monkey, Viking Press
- Tom Galt, Seven Days from Sunday, Thomas Y. Crowell, Co.
1957 Anne Hitchcock White, The Uninvited Donkey, Viking Press
- Clyde Robert Bulla, Ghost Town Treasure, Thomas Y. Crowell, Co.
1961 Lois Baker Muehl, The Worst Room in the School, Holiday House
1962 John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, Viking Press
- Dorothy Koch , Monkeys are Funny That Way, Holiday House
1963 Helen Bauer, California Indian Days, Doubleday
1965 Ann Nolan Clark, This for That, Golden Gate Junior Books
1965 Astrid Lindgren, Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue, Viking Press
1966 LA County, Angelenos, Then and Now, Los Angeles County Schools
- Myra Berry Brown, Best Friends, Golden Gate Junior Books
- Elizabeth Hall (Voltair), Micromégas (1752), adapted for children by Elizabeth Hall
with a foreword by Scott O’Dell, Golden Gate Junior Books.
1967 Myra Berry Brown, Best of Luck, Golden Gate Junior Books
1968 Ruth A. Sonneborn, Seven in a Bed, Viking Press
1969 Robert Burch, Joey’s Cat, Viking Press
1970 Julia Cunningham, Burnish Me Bright, Pantheon Books
1971 Jacklyn Meek Matthews, Edward and the Night Horses, Golden Gate Junior Books
1972 Julia Cunningham , Far in the Day, Pantheon Books
- Elizabeth K. Cooper, Wild Cats of Rome, Golden Gate Junior Books
1977 Richard Peck, Monster Night at Grandma’s House, Viking Press
1978 Marjorie Thomas, The April Foolers, a play, Golden Gate Junior Books
- Edith Thatcher Hurd, Dinosaur, My Darling, Harper and Row
1979 Don Freeman (illustrations), Linda Z. Knab (text), The Day is Waiting, The Viking Press
1980 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Books of Wonder, New York.
