Bertram and his Funny Animals
By: by Paul T. Gilbert; pictures by Minnie H. Rousseff.
Publisher: Rand, McNally & company
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York; Chicago [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
First sentence: Once there was a little boy named Bertram. And he wanted a hippopotamus...
Description: A collection of short stories, originally published in Child Life Magazine, featuring a boy named Bertram whose fascination with animals gets him into a lot of trouble. Things get very complicated when he wishes for an animal and then stumbles upon that very animal and brings it home, with some unexpected results.  The characters also include his brother Baby Sam, his exasperated Mama, a father always off on business trips to Omaha and coming back just in the nick of time, and Bertram's friends, George Fish and Ginny Banning, among others.
Notes: Illustrated lining-papers in colors.
Table of contents: title: Bertram and the Hippopotamus
pagenum: 7; title: Bertram and the Dancing Bear
pagenum: 19; title: Bertram and his Giraffe, Rudolph
pagenum: 33; title: Bertram and the South American Tapir
pagenum: 49; title: Bertram and the Kangaroo
pagenum: 65; title: Bertram and the Circus Elephant
pagenum: 79; title: Bertram and the Ticklish Rhinoceros
pagenum: 95; title: Bertram and the Baboon
pagenum: 113