children illustrated

NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Some fading and dame to spine (see image). Slight tanning to boards and pages from age. Two-color illustrations throughout. Some light fingerprint smudges throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, original price intact (5050). A retelling of an African folk tale with wonderful color and b&w artwork throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky. One of four of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories published by Garden City in 1942, all illustrated by Rojankovsky. The other three were: The Elephant's Child; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Camel Got His Hump. Unpaginated [28 pages]; full-color, 2-color, and b&w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.

Hardcover. Boulder CO, Vernissage Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Natasha Voronina. This Christmas tale broadens a child's understanding of another culture as it introduces a few words of Russian. It is a story of self-discovery while it introduces readers (parents, as well as children) to some of the lore and language of a far-away country.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages. When gray clouds cover the sky for three days, Mother Hen's chicks, aided by animals of farmyard, field, and forest and guided by moon and cloud, set out to find the sun. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Book Club Edition, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Hardcover. New York, Capital Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard pages and metal ring binding. Bell attachment missing. Moderate soil to board pages. Light rubbing.

Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Weiss. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, yellowing. Brodart cover.

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. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Nola Langer. Humorous tale told in rhyme by the noted poet. Library binding, NOT ex-library. Ownership stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped with blue design, 60 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Leonard Shortall. Mild soil to yellow boards, no markings. Six-year-old Stephen discovered a new sign on the Museum, "Animal Lending Library," a place which lent animals to children who were at least seven years old. During the next few weeks, Stephen thought about nothing except how he could borrow a small, brown rabbit.

Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. Unpaginated, b&w cartoon illustrations by the Berenstains. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a black cloth spine and a color illustration paste-down on front cover. K-E code on copyright page. 247 pages. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. Mild edgewear to covers, light water stain to rear board, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color cover label, 209 pages. First published in 1921, this a 30s reprint with a F-B code on the copyright page. With 13 full-page illustrated plates-some black-and-white, some color, including frontispiece. Black-and-white tipped in illustration at beginning of Chapter 1. Other drawings scattered throughout. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped in dark green, in a shelf-worn dust jacket. 208 pages, illustrated by Lyle Justis. Brief gift inscription and previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Black & white illust. by William Donahey, "Teenie Weenies" comic creator. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips to top, bottom of spine. A novel about a rough and tumble boy, a real Dennis the Menace, who is reformed by the hired girl.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Delessert. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. St Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this book lush, life-like illustrations by natural history artist Laurie Caple accompany Cheryl Blackford's poetic imagining of a year in the life of an urban coyote. Across the pages, Coyote sneaks, skulks, and scurries in his constant quest to feed himself and his growing family. While Coyote hunts nearby, people enjoy a city park. At the lake, in the marsh, among the trees, children jump, twirl, and play, oblivious to his secret life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket with chipping. Illustrated in color by Rosemary Wells. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with illustrated covers. Color frontispiece, beautiful center spread of crowd in a marketplace, other color and b/w lithographs by Barbara Latham. Moderate to heavy edgewear and rubbing to covers. Illustrated end papers. Ex-Libray stamps on end paper.