children illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kellogg. INSCRIBED BY KELLOGG WITH A TADPOLE SKETCH on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

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, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label. 64 pages in color. Christopher Wormell's magnificent, color-drenched linoleum-block illustrations grace this alphabet book, so handsomely designed it's sure to appeal to discriminating adults as well as to children. The award-winning British artist, whose previous work An Alphabet of Animals took the top graphics prize at the 1990 Bologna Children's Book Fair, has created all new artwork for his latest interpretation of the alphabet, featuring glorious images of animals from armadillo to zorilla (a skunklike creature). Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. When Mrs Tovey's beloved Siamese Solomon dies she gets a replacement and happiness comes again to this normally hilarious household. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color by Dave Mottram. From acclaimed author (and cat lover!) Joyce Carol Oates comes a charming, heartwarming picture book. As the only cat in her house, Cherie is accustomed to being showered with treats and affection. So when her family brings home a new kitten named Cleopatra, Cherie resents that she's no longer the center of attention--and she can't believe all the trouble that the kitten gets away with! Is one home big enough for two kitties? Beautifully illustrated by Dave Mottram, this picture book will resonate for any reader who has--eventually!--found the joy in sharing the spotlight with a new family addition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MACAULAY on the half-title page. The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. Autographed sticker on cover, a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st thus, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with $2.50 price on flap. Blue boards stamped in gilt with red cloth spine. 8 color plates, other b&w illustrations by Evelyn Copelman. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York/London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, circa 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Dark blue cloth with black and gilt trim, decoration and lettering on front cover panel and spine. 126 pages with 11 (of 12) tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac (lacking the frontis-illustration). Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 2nd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Aristotle the kitten is so adventurous that it's a good thing cats have nine lives. What's even better is that Aristotle has found the kind witch Bella Donna to be his owner. Somehow she is always there when he gets into trouble, whether tumbling down the chimney, tipping over a giant milk jug, or tearing away from a snarling watchdog - just as a truck comes careening by. Is it luck? Or maybe a little bit of magic? Dick King-Smith's mischievous narrative and Bob Graham's sweet, humorous watercolors capture the first eight lives of a kitten. Clean copy.

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. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 99 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Gennady Spirin. Pages without illustrations are decorated with elegant and delicate borders. Faux marbled endpapers. Translator Brodmann has been celebrated in her native Germany for her work with juvenile literature. Stated first printing. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 3rd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Based on a new translation by Aliana Brodmann. Measures approximately 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Beautiful color plates by Gennady Spirin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with short closed tears. Christmas story retold by the author/illustrator. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1958, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by WarrenChappell. Rubbing to corners and spine. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Leonel Maciel. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Retells stories from the Old Testament in humorous, less-than-reverent verses. Illustrated in b&w by her husband, William Steig.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 66 pages, illustrated in b&w by Joe Servello. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Purple cloth with pictorial pastedown, green endpapers, bright and unmarked copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. A glorious, full-color collection of Mother Goose rhymes, featuring the classic Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. 136 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with black stamping, 48 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Yang. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lee & Low Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This dazzling collection of poetry celebrates the beauty of African-American culture. Written by 20 inner-city children, these moving and powerful poems represent little-heard and often overlooked voices. Color illustrations by Gregory Christie. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by Marcia Sewall.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 94 pages, color illustrations by Peggy Turley. In this delightful children's tale, an American boy, Kenny Strange, moves to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco with his parents and strikes up a friendship with young Juanito Perez, a Taxco native. The two boys are brought together by an enchanting toy, the pasteboard bandit Tito. Chosen by Juanito at a town fair from among the other pasteboard toys, Tito, with his colorful clothes and bright eyes, becomes Juanito's and Kenny's constant companion, and the threesome share many adventures in and around the town's rolling green hills. The boys' growing friendship, Kenny's introduction to a culture unlike his own, and Tito's witty reflections on being a toy will be recognized instantly by anyone young or old who has ever made a friend or imagined that a toy might be real. Originally written in 1935, but never before published, The Pasteboard Bandit grew out of several trips Langston Hughes made to Mexico during his lifetime. Hughes first went to the town of Toluca at age 5 to visit his father, and again when he was older. During these visits, Hughes met many writers and artists, and it is their influence that informs the story of The Pasteboard Bandit--a story of two cultures meeting. When Hughes left Mexico for the last time, at age 32, he was carrying the first draft for The Pasteboard Bandit. Clean copy.