Evelyn S. Shaw

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Evelyn Shaw (1927-2003) was an American ethologist and children's writer. A 1963 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote several books on ethology, some of which were aimed at children, and worked as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor at Stanford University. On this catalog she is credited with Alligator, a book in the I Can Read! series. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Born
1927
Known for
I Can Read!

Series by Evelyn S. Shaw

I Can Read!

22 books in order · 1947–1987

  1. Cover of Terry and the Caterpillars

    Terry and the Caterpillars

    1969 · Millicent E. Selsam

    A young girl finds some caterpillars, keeps them in jars, feeds them, watches the caterpillars spin cocoons, and finally sees them emerge as moths…

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    Benny's Animals

    1966 · Millicent E. Selsam

    Two boys, with the help of a professor at the museum, learn to divide their animal pictures into the proper groups.

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