Children's Illustrated

San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket6. Color illustrations by David Christiana. Small closed tear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Grifalconi, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sissy, a pensive, round-faced, soft-eyed little black girl, mopes around her Georgia farm feeling neglected, lonely and "all grumpy-like." She is missing her father, who ". . . had died back when I was a baby girl." But her understanding uncle emerges from the fields, sees her sadness, and makes her feel better by reminding her that "we all be family." Uncle Dan knows that, just like his crops, she needs a little watering, a little love , and a little attention to shake off her blues. Sissy's Uncle Dan is able to cheer the little girl up when he takes her into the corn fields and points out to her how each and every one of the ears of corn is different from the other.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small closed tear. A Vermont farmer finishes his chores quickly with the help of a rolling pile of hay. Color illustrations by Gackenbach. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages. Line drawings by Lucy Dawson. Corners bumped. Edgewear to cardboard spine edges. Red lettering with black & white illustrations on front book cover.

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, hardcvoer with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Frank Modell. Some light edgewear, spine faded. Clean, tigth copy.

Softcover. NY, SeaStar/North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages illustrated in color. In this thoughtful & diverse collection, more than 40 of America's most distinguished children's book creators, including 14 Caldecott Medalists & Honor artists, share their reflections on human rights. Through words & pictures, they explore subjects ranging from child labor to racial integration to religious freedom, in an effort to foster a kinder, more tolerant world. In his introduction, Elie Wiesel notes that "Tikvah means hope & hope is represented by children." Whether joyous or provocative, stark or encouraging, the work collected in this volume represents these artists' firm commitment to human rights. INSCRIBED BY STEVEN KELLOGG & his wife on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Benji Davis throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. At the bottom of Syd's garden, through the gate and past the tree, is Grandad's house. Syd can let himself in any time he likes. But one day when Syd comes to call, Grandad isn't in any of the usual places. He's in the attic, where he ushers Syd through a door, and the two of them journey to a wild, beautiful island awash in color where Grandad decides he will remain. So Syd hugs Grandad one last time and sets sail for home. Visiting Grandad's house at the bottom of the garden again, he finds it just the same as it's always been -- except that Grandad isn't there anymore. Sure to provide comfort to young children struggling to understand loss, Benji Davies's tale is a sensitive and beautiful reminder that our loved ones live on in our memories long after they're gone.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Bear and Little Bird see a kangaroo for the very first time they can't believe their eyes. They must be dreaming! Bear and Little Bird know they could wake themselves up with a pinch, but first they decide to have some fun. Bear eats all the honey he was saving for winter, and Little Bird eats all his birdseed. Then they have a mess party. Soon it looks like their dream is going to turn into a nightmare! And what about that kangaroo? The lovable Moonbear returns in an imaginative story that will have readers laughing out loud. Color art by Asch. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."

Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2016, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Bestselling author Julia Alvarez's new picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death. The book asks, "When somebody dies, where do they go? / Do they go where the wind goes when it blows? ... Do they wink back at me when I wish on a star? Do they whisper, 'You're perfect, just as you are'? ..." Illustrated by Vermont woodcut artist, Sabra Field, Where Do They Go? is a beautiful and comforting meditation on death, asking questions young readers might have about what happens to those they love after they die. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.

Hardcover. New York, M A Donahue & Company , reprint , 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to top right corner of front cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Emma L. Brock. Decorated blue cloth with shelfwear, light soil to end papers. Mild water stain to front end- paper. Review copy stamp to blank prelim. page.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Color art by Schulz. The story of "an all-star baseball team and its conscientious but misunderstood manager-pitcher, Charlie Brown. " The book was the basis of the second prime-time animated TV specials based on the Peanuts comic strip. C;ean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations Charles Mikolaycak. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Beatriz Vidal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 4th pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, color art by Hills. Learn to read with this New York Times bestselling picture book, starring an irresistible dog named Rocket and his teacher, a little yellow bird. Follow along as Rocket masters the alphabet, sounds out words, and finally . . . learns to read all on his own! Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY`, Child's Play Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Meyrick. Laminated covered boards with color illustrations. Small dings on top edge.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Diane Goode. Dust jacket with light wear, tape repaired closed tear at top edge rear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color paintings by Base. One little boy living on a farm in rural Texas gets a big surprise when he discovers tiny flying elephants under his bed. But his mom doesn't like critters in the house, so he tries to keep them a secret. Until one day they escape from his bedroom and cause havoc in the house. But when locusts invade the farm and start to destroy crops, the elephants come to the rescue!

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON TITLE PAGE. Red laminate covers and white laminate dust jacket with color illustration, lovely full page color illustrations by McCully. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a beautiful children's book.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dan Yaccarino. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 6th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, but chipped and worn dust jacket, 56 pages. Green cloth cover with a line drawing of a girl on a horse on the front, with brightly printed endpapers and full page color illustrations of Bemelman's charming paintings throughout. This was the authors fourth (4th) title in the "Madeline" series of seven titles. Small stain to dust jacket at the bottom of the spine. Internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, unpaginated (40 pages), illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Shelf wear, back cover rubbed, otherwise good plus.

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and Black and white pictures throughout by Blake.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. B&w illustrations by Tom Newsom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ness. Ex-lib with library stamp on front and back endpapers. Dust jacket with light edgewear to bottom corner edge.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Yezerski. Asa's father is a canal boat captain, a man who moves goods and cargo on a barge pulled by mules. In this gentle story, nine-year-old Asa gets to come along for the first time because his father's mule driver has quit. Their trip is a learning experience for Asa, who helps care for the mules and steers them along the path, visiting with familiar faces along the way.Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, no dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Etchings by Barbara Garrison. Not Ex-library. A bright, clean copy. Boris the bear receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth with drawing of woodchuck on front cover. B/w illustrations by Sharon Stearns. Light soil, marking to endpapers, interior clean.

Hardcover. London, Collins, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaged hardcover. Color photos. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch & Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blue lettering and drawing of chipmunk on front cover. Squiggles the chipmunk runs off with a doll's red cape around his neck. Adventures ensue as Emmy, the doll's owner tries to retrieve it. Charming drawings by Margaret Freeman, many with red borders. Covers have light soil, previous owner's name opposite half title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red. Illustrated in color by Norma Welliver. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS on the half-title page. Clean copy, no dust jacket. A circus clown tells his story.

Hardcover. Paris, Jardin des Modes, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow pictorial boards, 14.25'' x 10.25'', black cloth spine. 48 pages. Color illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. First French edition of the third installment of the adventures of Babar, the orphaned elephant. An unusually bright, clean copy of a book often found in rough shape. Some mild soil to yellow boards. Beautful collector's copy.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrations by Cox throughout. Large Brownie embellished letters at begining of each chapter. Page 167 corner tip chip. Green cloth with color label of frolicking Brownies centered on front cover. Titles on front cover and spine printed in blue. Minor wear. Ligth soil on covers. Previous owner's writing on piliminary page. Gutter cracked in multiple places, but still intact.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Keats. Children's Book Club Edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "This collection of illustrations from the National Art Library at the V&A contains well-known and unfamiliar fables accompanied by contemporary texts and translations, often with a topical or satirical content. It gives a cross-section of illustrative styles from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Fabulous color and b/w illustrations throughout. A wonderful reference volume, with a small bibliography and an "Analysis by Theme" at rear (plus Index)." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 24 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated in color, black & white. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along spine but very attractive.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Young.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Soil to inside edge of rear cover. Illustrated in bright primary colors by Barton. Dust jacket has a 1 1/2 inch closed tear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, Windmill Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. Small chips on rear of dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of cover boards. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk Co, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped lettering and illustration of monkey and elephant on front cover. Clean, tight copy with small chip from spine and light fraying on edges.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color by Chess. As he encounters animals from A to Z, Alfred learns the letters of the alphabet. Book Club edition, clean copy.