Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Young. Doko is only a simple basket. It is not only grain from the field that he carries--he has also carried his master's child, and wood for the fire. He was there when the child became a man and married. And he very nearly had to carry the grandfather away forever. Luckily, someone wise beyond their years spoke up and made it possible for Doko to carry the grandfather home again instead. As ever, Ed Young has taken a simple fable and made it into a masterpiece of stunning illustration and expert storytelling. This beautiful and unique book celebrates the generations with great originality.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light stain to front end papers, also affecting front flap on dust jacket. Light foxing to copy block edges otherwise very good. A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format in a bright unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket. Color illust. by Hogrogian. 1972 Caldecott Medal Winner with sticker on front panel. Second printing in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Armenian folktale about a greedy fox's adventures. Clean, bright copy.

New York, Viking Press, 1st ed, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Edgewear and wrinkling to covers. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, closed tear to front.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. SIGNED BY BOTH KENNEDYS on title page. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter.Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations. Each die-cut page features a bunny profile, which collectively creates the whole bunny family. Chipping to top 5" of front cover hinge. Light wear overall.

Hardcover. New York , Golden Books, 1ST, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WAHL on copyright page. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Chipping, tears and heavy wear to cover boards. Rear hinge separated with staples exposed. Previous owner's marking on preliminary pages.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too--and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road. Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure--you won't cross this book without a good laugh!

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with colorful paintings by Pauline Baynes. Based on hymns from the Book of Daniel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author and SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ with a small sketch under his dedication.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright jacket. SIGNED with a little pig sketch by Guarnaccia on title page. In this quirky, artsy retelling of "The Three Little Pigs," the pigs and their homes are nods to three famous architects-Frank Gehry, Phillip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright-and their signature homes. Each house is filled with clever details, including furnishings by the architects and their contemporaries. Of course, not all the houses are going to protect the pigs from the wolf's huffing and puffing. Which one will? The wolf, and readers, are in for a clever surprise ending.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Oxenbury. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY BOTH BARRETTS. In this charming sequel to the classic Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Kate and Henry eagerly await Grandpa's return from a vacation that his postcard says has been one of the best and most unusual ever. Thinking about that postcard Kate drifts off to sleep that night and... "With Henry as my co-pilot..." she visits the strange land of Chewandswallow -- a land characterized by massive amounts of food, immense carrots, leafy jungles of lettuce, and tuna fish sandwiches so gigantic they have to be moved by helicopter. What the people of Chewandswallow are doing with all that food is most intriguing of all. Fans of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs will applaud this return trip with its underlying message of generosity and a world community

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Vagin. SIGNED BY PATERSON on bookplate glued to front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Shea. SIGNED BY SHEA. In this humorous paean to fatherhood, a hippo explains that he is so smart that he shows his dad how to do things. Shea goes through a series of scenarios in which the father gets his son to do what he wants by pretending he doesn't know how to do it correctly. When the youngster claims to be "busy getting dressed," the pictures show him watching TV in his underwear. The father proceeds to mix up his clothing and asks, "Is this how you get dressed?" prompting the child to respond, "Oh, Daddy! This is how you get dressed!" And so it goes on.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red and blue stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Small tear to rear endpaper. Rubbing to corners and spine. No dust jacket. Tale of Mrs. Fiddlefinger, of the three chins and many aprons, and her private island that flew off over Blue Kettle Lake on its own during a wind storm, to land on the other side.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Radunsky . SIGNED BY RADUNSKY. In this soothing rhyme we explore the sleeping habits of some favorite inhabitants of the world of fairy tales and find fairies, wizards, goblins, and even children all find peace under the same bright moon.

Softcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 92 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners names at top of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with foxing, wear along darkened edges. Book is clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Paul O. Zelinsky on half title page. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Little, flat Sonny Shivers and his family only know it's cold and dark where they live, and whenever the earth quakes, a monstrous hand, reaching forth in a great flash of light, snatches away part of their landscape --Buttery Cliffs, towering Mt. Ketchup . . . and with the landscape goes his family, one by one, until only Sonny is left to face the monsters. Who are they? What and where is the Shivers family? Children will delight in puzzling it all out before the Shivers do. Fran Manushkin's dry but juicy humor, spiced with food puns, carries this droll saga through shivery perils to a warm reunion on the refrigerator door. As ever, Caldecott-winner Paul O. Zelinsky's wit makes theater of the most improbable situations.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, n.d. (2002), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SENDAK ON TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely full page tri-tone illustrations by Sendak. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Another classic title from world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, this illustrated children's book, originally published in French in 1969, tells the story of Martin Pebble, a little boy who has something unusual the matter with him: he keeps blushing all the time for no particular reason.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Daniel San Souci. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminate covers with completely illustrated in color, full-page color illustrations by Jay Hyde Barnum. Rubbing and mild edgewear to cardboard covers; a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Imagine the bravest, fiercest Norwegian warriors that ever lived, carrying a baby prince across blizzard-wracked mountains to save his life. Picture the babe's mother undergoing a cruel, brutal test to prove her son is indeed the bona fide prince of Norway. A fairy tale? No, this is a true story, based on the account written in 1264 by Sturla Tordsson, about the Middle Ages' most powerful king during what are known as Norway's Golden Years. Norwegian-born author Lise Lunge-Larsen tells the story of this king's miraculous adventure in infancy, while woodcut artist Mary Azarian stunningly depicts the heroism of the birch-bark armored peasant warriors, the Birkebeiners. Mary Azarian was awarded the Caldecott Medal for her lovely woodcut illustrations in Snowflake Bentley. SIGNED BY AZARIAN.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, dust jacket acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Matthew Wheelock, Jerusha's great-great grandfather, creates an enduring legacy for his descendants as he clears his fields and uses the stones to create a marvelous stone wall. Gorgeous watercolor art by Ted Lewin.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce , 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a red cloth spine. 24 pages (printed on one side only), color Illustrations by Dette, printed in Sweden. Light stains to cardboard covers otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and faded dust jacket. Not only reluctant, a Siamese princess is very shy, especially around men. Retelling of a very old folk tale from Thailand. 62 pages illustrated in color by Sukit Chuthama. Alert for book banners: bare-breasted ladies! Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated with an alligator on front. SIGNED BY KINNELL on title page. Previous owner's sticker on front paste down. Color illustrations by Lynn Munsinger.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Robert Byrd. INSCRIBED BY KROLL Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press , 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, clean (see images). A few pages have a touch of fingerprint soil, otherwise still bright and completely intact. Original owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Scarce. In beautiful condition. The animals share strategies to avoid throwing a temper tantrum.

New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrations by the author throughout, illustrated cover and endpaper. Previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, minor corner bumps and edge wear, light fading along edges. Overall, clean, tight and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Stanley. In an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raschka. Sergei Prokofiev composed his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 with the hope of introducing children to the instruments of the orchestra. It happens that he also devised a wonderfully dramatic story. The characters - boy, bird, duck, cat, grandfather, wolf, hunters - and their doings have been beloved by young and old for decades. Writer, artist, musician, and Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka has given the original story a new setting: a stage performance. Here you will relish language inspired music; enjoy mischief, suspense, and triumph in the theater; and delight in a surprise (and an additional character) Prokofiev's merry tale didn't provide. Please do not turn immediately to the last page. SIGNED BY RASCHKA.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 28 pages. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. King Gordo is such a light sleeper that when he takes his afternoon nap, all commotion must absolutely cease, and when an unfortunate potscrubber comes down with a bad case of hiccups, the king despairs of ever getting his beauty sleep.

Hardcover. New York, Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGES. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Ashley Wolff. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages, hardcover with laminated boards, illustrated in color and 2-colors by Hoff. Dust jacket with chipping, light wear, price-clipped. Very early edition but not a first printing, no black cloth spine, code on dust jacket rear No. 5963, rear flap has reviews of Little Bear, Harper Blue Ribbon sticker on spine.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout by Leo Dillon.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Bob and Betty learn about life and work on the farm during a summer vacation they spend with their Uncle John and Cousin Ruben. Originally published in 1910. Foreword by Barbara Bader. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in dark blue with a sketch of Madeline on a horse on the cover. 56 pages illustrated in color by Bemelmans. No dust jacket. Light wear to corners otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed pictorial boards, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Darkening to spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The Maple Street Club is putting on a play. But Seymour refuses to kiss the sleeping princess.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light yellow cloth stamped in blue. A humorous look at life from a baby's/toddler's point of view. Part of The Boston Children's Medical Center's Publications for Parents series. Illustrated throughout in two-colors with Marc Simont's humorous drawings. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Friso Henstra. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket. An enormously fat Sultan is told he will die in 40 days, so he frets his poundage away. Delightful story about losing weight, eat less & you'll do it!