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Books published by publisher Franklin Watts, Incorporated

  • Grabianski's Birds

    J. Grabianski

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, Jan. 15, 1968)
    Beautifully illustrated, short descriptions of birds from around the world. Terns to swans and peacocks to pheasants. Hummingbirds to hawks and eagles to pigeons. An abundance in a few pages.
  • They Lived Like This in Ancient Africa

    Marie Neurath

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, )
    None
  • Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

    James Hilton

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Inc., Jan. 30, 1962)
    Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.
  • You Wouldn't Want to Be a Chicago Gangster!: Some Dangerous Characters You'd Better Avoid

    Rupert Matthews, Mark Bergin

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, March 1, 2010)
    Travel back to the 1920s and plumb the depth of Chicago's criminal underworld. As an undercover cop, you'll pretend to be a gangster and infiltrate one of Chicago's most dangerous gangs.
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  • Robert Koch: Father of Bacteriology

    David C. Knight, Gustav Schrotter

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, )
    None
  • The Water Babies

    Charles Kingsley; Kathleen Lines, Harold Jones

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Inc., Sept. 3, 1961)
    The story follows Tome in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to his fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues.
  • The Future World of Transportation

    Valerie Moolman

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, Aug. 15, 1984)
    Traces the history and discusses the future of transportation with emphasis on the development of different types of vehicles and modes of transport. Based on the "World of Motion" exhibit at Walt Disney's EPCOT center.
  • Aristotle: Dean of Early Science

    Glanville Downey

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, )
    None
  • One, Two, Three With Ant and Bee

    Angela Banner

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, June 16, 1958)
    None
  • Ten Tales from Shakespeare

    Charles & Mary Lamb, Janusz Grabianski

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, Jan. 16, 1969)
    Enthralling prose retellings for young readers of some of Shakespeare's most beloved works. This selection of works features The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Othello.
  • They Lived Like This in Ancient Persia.

    Marie. Neurath

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, Jan. 15, 1970)
    hardcover
  • Up Mountain One Time

    WILLIE and KAREN BERTRAND WILSON

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Incorporated, Aug. 15, 1987)
    A mongoose on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas undertakes a journey from his birthplace in a village churchyard to his destiny in the bush of the northern mountains to live wild like his ancestors.