Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Juliette and her parade of stuffed animals prepare for this special holiday by choosing a tree, decorating the house, and baking cookies. Juliette explains that Santa will bring gifts for everyone, but when Christmas day arrives, she is so excited about her new presents she forgets all about her friends until she receives a special present that reminds her that friendship is the best gift of all. This delightful story, perfectly suited for the board book audience, captures the anticipationof Christmas and gently underscores the true spirit of the season. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 7th pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. "With the same delightfully irreverent spirit that he brought to his retellings of Little Red Riding Hood, Marshall enlivens another favorite. . . . The illustrations are fraught with delicious humor and detail." Clean copy, no dust jacket. Top of spine has a small tear.

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, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First publlshed in 1950, this charming picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning team of Simont and Krauss features bold illustrations that bring to life a humorous and engaging reversal of ordinary reality that will enchant young children and their parents. Full color. Clean copy.

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. 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. 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. 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. New York, Jump the Sun/Hyperion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on reverse side fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a color drawing of a lamb by Morgan on the front fly leaf. After her grandmother dies, a little Tuscan girl cannot stand the sound of bells until the good-hearted schoolmaster introduces her to some belled lambs. Morgan's bright, folksy illustrations evince a hearty rusticity perfectly suited to the sweet and compassionate story. Small tear to dj at top of spine, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN on title-page. Illust. in color by Kalman. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 116 pages. The third book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by MacLachlan. Anna has done something terrible. She has given Caleb a journal to fill. "It's your job now," Anna says as she hands him her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, Jacob, Anna, Caleb, and their new little sister, Cassie, have already formed a family, and Caleb fears there will be nothing left to write about. That is, before Cassie discovers a mysterious old man in the barn, and everything changes.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SPIRIN ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Florence Sarah Winship. (A Tell-A-Tale Book) The subject is a fire truck. Covers are chipped, worn at edges, fragile condition.

Softcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe, nd, Book: Very Good, Two small 4 X 7" paper booklets. Cinderella is 12 pages with a color illustration on each page, no credit or date. Puffy is 8 pages, color illustrations by Margot Vogt. Both clean and bright.

Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in Sweden in 1953. 24 pages illustrated in color by Poul Stroyer. The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can't resist the farmer's cherries - and one day he gets caught. The farmer tries to punish the crow with hard labor, but the crow only causes a lot of bother. Then the farmer tries to sell the crow at the market, but who wants to buy a troublesome crow? Clean copy.

Hardcover. Robin Corey Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Paper engineer Ron Van der Meer has you trying to pick out and count all the different shapes and colors that jump out in front of your face. The colors and shapes are wild and the whole book is fun and engaging. No dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 3-color illustrations by Ralph Carpentier. A Science I CAN READ Book. A little herring fish, lost from her school, searches all day before finding another just like it. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House/ Beginner Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with minor wear to spine and corners, chip to rear panel at bottom. Pictorial glossy boards. Contents tight and unmarked. $1.95 price on dust jacket flap. Color illustrations by the Berenstains. An early printing of their first book, but back of dj has their second book listed (The Bike Lesson) so not a true 1st printing.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books;, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn't attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its bright spots--like favorite games and radio shows--and many young people remained upbeat and optimistic about the future. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, and richly illustrated with classic archival photographs, this book by one of the most celebrated authors of nonfiction for children places the Great Depression in context and shows young readers its human face. Endnotes, selected bibliography, index.

Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color drawings by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, BC Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by William Lipkind and Nicholas Mordbinoff. NOT ex-library. Weekly Reader edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Vladimir Vagin. While poking about in the attic, Marvin and Joey discover old letters written by their great-great uncles, Henry and Timothy, whose correspondence with each other reveals to the youngsters the truths about being different and being brothers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Horn Book" stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Sir Cedric's vacation in Jerusalem with his family and servants is interrupted when his wife, Lady Matilda, and daughter, Edwina the Fair, are kidnapped by evil Abdul the Heavy. Color illustrations by Gerrard. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY PETER SIS ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 28 pages with color woodcuts by David Frampton. Through lilting poetic prose and glowing woodcuts, Kuskin and Frampton present a hommage to the holy city of Jerusalem, home of the three major religions. Four thousand years of the city's history are described, beginning with King David's conquest over Goliath, continuing through the Six Day War. In spite of all the battles, burnings, and rebuildings, the city stands majestically "shining still.'' It is to Kuskin's credit that she describes the city's 4000-year history in such a brief form, while still conveying a personal sense of the place. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. Heavy soil on top and spine. Fraying to corners. Gutter crack in front, otherwise good copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look! An elephant eats. Look! Giraffes drink. Look! A warthog digs. A gorilla hides, wild dogs listen, zebras run, monkeys sit, hippos splash, and a rhino naps. Each line of text is illustrated by a two-page spread with a beautiful painting of an animal Ted Lewin has seen on his journeys to Africa. At the end of the story, a boy reads, plays, and dreams, surrounded by toy animals that represent each of the real ones. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stockholm, R&S Books, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Olaf Lanstrom. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in colot by Sima. Growing up in the ocean, Kelp has always assumed that he was a narwhal like the rest of his family. Sure, he's always been a little bit different--his tusk isn't as long, he's not as good of a swimmer, and he really doesn't enjoy the cuisine. Then one night, an extra strong current sweeps Kelp to the surface, where he spots a mysterious creature that looks just like him! Kelp discovers that he and the creature are actually unicorns. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mankato, MI, Creative Education, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrations by Etienne Delessert. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Sheyda Abvabi Best. A picture book about Champ and Major, President-elect Joe Biden's two adorable dogs! Major will be the first shelter dog in the White House, and Champ can't wait to show him around. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, early reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with moderate chipping to laminated covers.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by McCully.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1938, Book: Fair, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color and b&w with scenes from the animated film. Front cover detached, spine with tape repair. Minor wear but pages clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white and yellow illustrations by Hilary Knight. Light soil on cover boards. Previous owner's name opposite title page. Spine shows moerate wear and bumping.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Color Illustrations by Brodsky. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild edgewear. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. An attractive copy of this first edition, unclipped with $2.00 on flap. Clean.

Hardcover. Brookfield, CN, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

Hardcover. Phila, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Decie Merwin, dj w/chipping, wear, closed tears. Light musty smell otherwise very good.

Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Simler. From New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book artist Isabelle Simler, a picture book (and nature guide!) to linger over. Look closely as a spider -- both a collector and an artist -- skillfully crafts a masterpiece from all that falls into her path. Patient and observant, she appreciates all the wonders that make up her landscape -- from ferns and feathers to bugs and butterflies. Readers will come back again and again to the luscious and intricate illustrations, soaking up all of Simler's delicate details. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light to moderate soil on blue fabric covers. Internally clean, and bright. Illustrations in b&w by Susan Perl. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Jersey CI, Singram Co. Ltd, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 pages. Hardcover. Color, life-like pop-up illustrations throughout. A touch of foxing throughout. Binding tight. Completely intact, all pop-ups are complete and in working order. Last pop-up is a removable flying kestrel that really flies.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 2nd pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wendell Minor. A picture book biography of a lesser-known patriot in the U.S. war for independence. About a successful bookseller and his part in the Revolutionary War. Though not in the book, Knox became the first United States Secretary of War and had 2 Forts named after him.

Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine shows heavy wear, chipping and tearing with exposed cardboard under fabric. Light musty odor. Clean internally. Color illustrations by Rachael Robinson Elmer.