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Books

(partial list) *''Animal Tales from the Old North State''. Lucy M Cobb; Mary A Hicks; Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. *''A Bear is a Bear''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1953. *''Bear Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1935. *''Bigger and Bigger''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath, 1946, 1955. *''Cubby Bear and the Book''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1961. *''Dinosaur Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1963. *''A Dog for Danny''. Inez Hogan; Liz Dauber. Publisher: Champaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co., 1973. *''Eager Beaver''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1963. *''Elephant Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1937. *''Epaminondas and his Auntie''.

; Inez Hogan. Publisher: Boston:

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, 1938. *''The Four Funny Men''. Erlin Hogan; Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1939. *''Fox Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1964. *''Giraffe Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton, 1948. *''Little Lost Bear''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1960. *''The Little Ones''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1956. *''The Littlest Bear''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1959. *''The Littlest Satellite''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1958. *''The Lone Wolf''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1961. *''Me''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1954. *''Monkey See Monkey Do''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960. *''Mule Twins''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton & Co., 1939. *''Nappy has a New Friend''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Dutton & Co., 1947. *''Ned and Nancy''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Boston, Heath, 1955. *''Nicodemus and the Goose''. Inez Hogan. Schomburg Children's Collection. Publisher: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1945. *''Nicodemus Runs Away''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Dutton, 1942. *''Petunia Be Keerful''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Racine, Whitman, 1934. *''Read to Me about Nono, the Baby Elephant''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1947. *''Runaway Stories: Folk Tales and Nursery Rimes''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York: Newson & Co., 1928. *''Twin Kittens''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1958. *''Twin Lambs''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: Dutton, 1951. *''Twin Otters and the Indians''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1962. *''We Are a Family''. Inez Hogan. Publisher: New York Dutton, 1952.

References

External links

Biography and bibliographyGuide to the Inez Hogan papers at the University of Oregon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogan, Inez 1895 births 1973 deaths American children's writers American women illustrators American illustrators American women children's writers 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American people