Here are tried-and-true tales for very young children – all selected for simple text and ability to provide reading and listening pleasure ... and made even more attractive by beautiful color illustrations of adorable puppets in lifelike poses that are an endless delight.
This is the advertisement on the back cover of the 3D Puppet Wonder Books published by Grosset Zokeisha International (New York, Tokyo) in the 1960s. I personally find them delightful, and have been collecting these for several years.
These wonderful books are illustrated by Tadasu Izawa and Shigemi Hijikata (often just represented by their first initials).
- The same series also seems to have been published by Wattle Books, Winker Books, and Little & Woods Press.
- The same series appears with 2 stories per book in the similarly named Puppet 3-D Wonder Books series published by Grosset – see my list of these books.
There are other series by this pair – for information on those, see my lists of Preschool Puppet Books and Puppet Shape Wonder Books.
Below is a list of the 32 Puppet Storybooks/3D Puppet Wonder Books I am aware of, with links to my reviews if they are books I've read. The order of books appears the same on early editions (although the earliest editions have gaps), but they are later given the numbers listed here.
Note:
- Each cover has a 3-D lenticular image.
- There are several alternative cover editions of this series.
0751 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
0752 The Three Little Kittens
0753 Jack and the Beanstalk
0754 The Little Red Hen
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| Photo: My collection |
0755 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
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| Photo: My collection |
0756 Counting Rhyme
0757 Mother Goose
0758 Peter Rabbit
0759 Henny Penny
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| Photo credit: Worthpoint |
0760 Fun with the Alphabet
0761 What Time is it?
0762 The House that Jack Built
0763 Baby Animals
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| Photo: My collection |
0764 Happy Birthday
0765 Little Nursery Rhymes
0766 A Child's Garden of Verses
0767 The Night Before Christmas
0768 The Three Little Pigs
0769 Pinocchio
0770 Bedtime Stories
0771 Cinderella
0772 Hansel and Gretel
0773 Little Red Riding Hood
0774 Goldilocks and the Three Bears
0775 Puss in Boots
0776 The Ugly Duckling
0777 Sleeping Beauty
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| Photo: My collection |
0778 Teddy Goes to the Doctor
[Note: There doesn't seem to be an 0779 or 0780 in this series, as they don't appear in the back cover lists]
0781 The Real Princess
0782 The Elves and the Shoemaker
0783 Rumpelstiltskin
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| Photo: My collection |
0784 Tom Thumb
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| Photo: My collection |
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