Children's Illustrated

Softcover. Chicago, Reuben H. Lilja , 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages including covers, verse and color illustrations by Milo Winter. Charming die-cut polka dot "bow tie" is featured on every page, taking different forms with different animals, which include Rabbit, Kitty, Puppy, Duck, Mouse, Chicks, etc. The "bow tie" becomes a sash, package decoration, dress sash, etc.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.

Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too. David Legge's fun-filled watercolors are as infectious as Australian author Wild's lively tale about adults rediscovering the satisfaction of creative play.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by William Pene Du Bois. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 3-color illustrations by Don Bolognese. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Edgewear and chipping and a piece torn on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, reprints 4 classical tales: "Harold and the Purple Crayon," "Harold's Fairy Tale," "Harold's Trip To The Sky" and "Harold's Circus." Illustrated throughout in two-colors by Johnson. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Piece gone from page 1, top right corner. light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the Sandbergs. Glazed boards with red cloth spine. Originally published in Sweden in 1973. Corners of boards show wear, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in blue, in an edgeworn dust jacket. After many birthdays, Robin gets the gift he's been wishing for - a dog.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 44 pages illustrated in color by Cyndy Szekeres. This wonderful children's story is a tale of a backwoods family hearing-tell that their Uncle Skinny is sick. Mrs. Clumpet, the best soup-maker around whips up a batch to be carried downstream by their makeshift boat. But they all fall asleep and are being carried toward the waterfall! What will become of the Clumpets? What will become of Uncle Skinny's soup? Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, John Sands, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. No date. Color illustrations by Margaret Senior.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in colors by Giulio Maestro. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Bright, clean copy. Story about a duck and bear who are faced with a new neighbor, a chipmunk. Can they all be friends?

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.

New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Dennis Nolan. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ALDREN WATSON ON TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate edgewear/soil, and corners lightly frayed/soiled. EX-LIBRARY with usually stamps and adhesive residue. Rear end paper has paper pasted in for due dates.

Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brief collection of seasonal poems for young readers based on the author's experiences living in Lancaster County, PA. Beautifully illustrated in color by Bill Farnsworth.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal.

hardcover. NJ, T.F.H. Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. How to care for hamsters told in comic strip form. 32 pages. All in color.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated cloth covers, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Hoff. Believed to be first printing, only 2 title by Hoff opposite title page (Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal), and no ISBN. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes scrapbook of photographs and drawings by Knight. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Barse & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated with 6 full color plates and spot illustrations by Millicent Sowerby. Light tape reinforcement to spine where paper has chipped. Clean copy.

NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT and dated 2000 on the front fly leaf. An excellent copy of this edition. A reprint of the scarce 1959 edition with a revised dust jacket.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY LEE LORENZ on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Hardcover. NY, Universe Publishing, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in 1946, Munro Leaf's How To Behave And Why gives touchingly sincere yet gently funny lessons in Honesty, Fairness, Strength, and Wisdom. Originally intended for the very young, but with meaning for us all, How To Behave and Why is a true classic, charmingly illustrated with childlike drawings, and with a timeless message. It is a sure guide for teaching children (and adults) how to behave.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY ILLUSTRATOR AND AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Zelinsky and SIGNED BY ZELINSKY. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket A new edition of the 1969 classic, this one with new color art by Alexander. When his mother gets angry over the mess he has made and he decides to run away with his friend, Blackboard Bear, Anthony discovers that the woods can be a very scary place,

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red lettering and boat design on front cover. Color, black & white illusration by Helen Sewell. 92 pages. Light wear to covers, old price blacked out on front fly leaf, internally VG.

Hardcover. NY, Lee & Low, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautifully rendered and colorfully illustrated account of the childhood of the great black writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston shows a young child triumphing over adversity and learning to pursue her dreams.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Dines. Cover shows minor wear. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations by Sylvie Wickstrom. A young boy overcomes his fear of the squeaky noise his door makes when his grandmother closes it each night before he goes to sleep. Library edition. NOT ex-lb, a squeaky clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st illustrated thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with light green stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Eulalie. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers.

Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Pomegranate, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Non paginated. 8 pop-up illustrations. Illustrated page headers. Light shelf wear to cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of an industrious little boy who listens to too many peoples' advice! Set in Ireland. Color and 2-color illustrations throughout by Ervine Metzl. Dj price blacked out, mild soil to rear of jacket otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in white and dark blue with a pictorial label on front cover. 282 pages. Covers show some soiling. No markings. 8 b&w plates by Charlotte Harding (not credited). She studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute of Illustration from 1894 to 1900. Harding is identified as one of Pyle's first and noted students.

Hardcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket. Rover and Coo Coo is a story in the traditional style of story telling, a story that was told to generations of the Hay family around an open fire in winter or on an open porch in summer. It takes place when Indiana was a frontier, and Charles Hay left his family in their log cabin and went to the distant mill to have his corn ground. The adventure takes place in the dark forest with a chase by hungry wolves, and Charles' faithful hounds saving the day. There are beautiful and clear descriptions of the surroundings in those pristine times. The illustrations of the highly acclaimed artist, Tim Soliday, bring it all alive. In the end Charles is safe with his wife and two small children, and he speaks of nature and how all creatures have a place in the larger picture of the oneness of the world.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked. Very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Maurice Sendak, dust jacket spine faded, Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear, short closed tears. Unclipped.