Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgwear. Color illustrations by Allen Say. Tight copy. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on to achieve.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed pictorial boards, 40 pages. Brilliant, vibrantly colored pictures by Bruce Degen illustrate this story. 'With her reluctant student, Arnold, the Friz slips through a mysterious trap door and ends up in the Middle Ages. There, they explore a medieval castle, meeting the people who live there and learning about everyday life within the castle walls.' Sicker residue on rear cover, crease to front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Calla Editions, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Forty full-page color plates by French artist and illustrator O.D.V. Guillonnet. A reformatted reprint of a classic.

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. In this, the second of D.B. Johnson's picture books about a bear modeled after Henry David Thoreau, the author takes another short piece from Walden to riff on, this one about how Thoreau built his cabin. In the picture book, the bear named Henry builds a small cabin in the wilderness, using borrowed or inexpensively purchased materials. One by one, his neighbors stop by to tell him that his cabin doesn't have enough room, doesn't have enough light, doesn't have the space for dancing. Henry assures each of them that his cabin is "bigger than it looks," and he shows each of the questioning neighbors and friends where he will eat (outdoors), where he will read (outdoors) and where he will dance (outdoors). Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Education, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Delessert. Includes four brief stories, each accompanied by a factual segment. Yok-Yok is a little boy and is based on a series of animated films created for television, Switzerland. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. This masterpiece of 3-D Paper Engineering by Sabuda has all parts and pieces working smoothly. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there is something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But its not a mistake - its nonsense! And its also surrealism. Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like the cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon. This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light bump to corners. Gutter lightly cracked in rear. Light soil on rear cover.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 2nd pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Originally published as The Magic Word. Color illustrations by Eleanor Dart. Teaching kids to say the magic word: "Please!" Name blacked out on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, b&w photographs. Lively account of the day-to-day care and training of horses experienced by many teens at horse farms in summer. In a lightly worn dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprints, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five hardcover books, all pictorial cloth Weekly Reader Book Club editions. Various dates, all illustrated in color by Seymour Fleishman. Clean copies.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Long ago in Italy, a mighty asparagus grew smack-dab in front of the king's castle. Was the king happy about it? No. The asparagus had to go. But how does a king reason with an asparagus of such stature? With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Vladimir Radunsky tells the uproarious tale of an almost immovable vegetable. Drawing on Italian Renaissance art, the esteemed artist creates a breathtaking magical kingdom, where it's easy to imagine that such an asparagus existed. His artwork is as gorgeous as it is funny. Although the old masters may turn over in their graves, readers of all ages will clamor for more of The Mighty Asparagus.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Floca proves himself masterful with this Caldecott Medal winner. The book's large format offers space for a robust story in a hefty package of information. Set in well-paced blank verse, the text begins with a quick sketch of "how this road was built" and moves abruptly to the passengers on the platform and the approaching train. The author smoothly integrates descriptions of the structure and mechanics of the locomotive, tasks of crew members, passing landscapes, and experiences of passengers. Simply sketched people and backgrounds, striking views of the locomotive, and broad scenes of unpopulated terrain are framed in small vignettes or sweep across the page. Though a bit technical in explaining engine parts, the travelogue scheme will read aloud nicely and also offers absorbing details for leisurely personal reading. Substantial introductory and concluding sections serve older readers. There's also a detailed explanation of the author's efforts and sources in exploring his subject. Train buffs and history fans of many ages will find much to savor in this gorgeously rendered and intelligent effort. True First Printing minus the stickers.

Hardcover. Racine Wi, Whitman Publishing, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. 28 pages with red and blue line illustrations and blue text inside. Stapled binding. A good copy of a fragile book. Light pencil marking.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. With twelve glowing color plates and over one hundred black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, this is a beautiful reproduction of the rare 1915 first edition. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. At the edge of the forest, Mrs. Fox looks out at her babies frolicking in the snow. Suddenly, the little ones stray too far away and in an instant Mrs. Fox loses sight of them. She embarks on a search for the missing kits, hampered by the dense trees and the deep snow. Can the reader help her find them? Mrs. Fox is a classic hide-and-seek story told through clever and beautiful paper cutouts and engaging illustrations. Young readers will enjoy finding the little foxes on the page as much as flipping through the large format, die cut pages. Illustrated in color throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Newbery Honor-winning author McKissack and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Pinkney have outdone themselves in this heart-warming picture book infused with humor and the true spirit of Christmas.Christmas always comes to Nella's house, but Santa Claus brings gifts only once in a while. That's because it's the Depression and Nella's family is poor. Even so, Nella's hoping that this year she and her two sisters will get a beautiful Baby Betty doll. On Christmas morning, the girls are beside themselves with excitement! There is Baby Betty, in all her eyelash-fluttering magnificence. "Mine!" Nella shouts, and claims the doll for herself. But soon she discovers that Baby Betty isn't nearly as much fun as her sisters. SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Color paintings throughout by the author. A swanherd loses his flock but gains a princess in this French fairy tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated glazed boards, 62 pages illustrated in color by Hoff. Clean, bright copy .

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. 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. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Crisp, tight copy. Very good condition with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zonderkidz , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by David McPhail. When a bunny is born in spring, he sees the world as green and new and full of hope. But as the seasons change, the bunny worries that the earth may be dying. Sally Lloyd-Jones' picture book celebrates the Easter season and rebirth. Award-winning artist David McPhail's whimsical illustrations reflect the beauty of the world around us, No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, World Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover with clipped-dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, WENDY WATSON, ON TITLE PAGE. Fading to dust jacket spine, light rubbing to edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anno. Mirror paper in rear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has chunks missing at spine. Chipping to covers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Illustrated by Elizabeth Enright.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Amy watches as everyone leaves the house and as neighbors are busy in the street, but when Grandpa finally comes Amy goes out too. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, small tear to front cover. Clean.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition -- a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, fold-out maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 4.

Hardcover. Combel, 1st thus, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with folding plates. Can you find a pair of birds playing badminton, a gibbon with a ribbon, and a starfish shining in the spotlight? In Search and Find: Animals, young children are prompted to search six busy fold-out scenes to find the illustrations highlighted on the large flaps. Each colorful spread features 20 things to find, plus additional amusing animals on a farm, in the Arctic, under a jungle canopy, beneath the waves, across the Savannah, and in the nighttime woods. Spanish Text EDITION.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Warwick Hutton. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green boards with small black embossed graphic illustration to front, bright red cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green textured dust jacket with a large b&w woodcut and red titles, 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Light rubbing to dust jacket, slight spotting to edge; a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Wnedy Watson. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 59 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Lambert Davis. Light edgewear to dust jacket , else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Moderat soil throughout. Tight booklet binding.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ted Harrison. Dust jacket with closed tear otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. Light soil. Black and white line drawings by Jerome Synder.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bruce McNally. Clean, tight copy.