children illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Friso Henstra. Minor wear to covers. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. New York , Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrations in full color by Moser. Light wear to pictoial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER on half-title. Caldecott Winner. Bright, crisp copy. Second printing, without Caldecott sticker on front. Wiesner won the first of three Caldecott Medals for this charming and humorous pictorial story about clever frogs and their adventures as they migrate from a swamp through a small town.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company, 2nd Ed., 1927, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, 40 pages illustrated throughout in color by Ilona de Karekjarto. Part of Volland's Sunny Book Series. Some minor chipping to covers along spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Whitman Tell-A-Tale, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, color illustrations by Ben Williams. Small sticker on first page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 20 pages illustrated in color by Carl and Mary Hauge. Mild cover wear.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Mitra Modarressi. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The well-known novelist's first children's book is a gently subversive fable celebrating the rewards of disorder. Princess Molly the Messy is deplored by her family: King Clement the Clean, Queen Nellie the Neat, and Prince Thomas the Tidy. Molly's domain is the castle tower, where she keeps the floor comfortably festooned with clothes and the bed is ``lumpy and knobby with half-finished books.'' Her parents are not pleased, but Molly is vindicated when a flood drives the whole family up to her room, where they find dry clothes and leftover food lying everywhere and a cozy bed to share while Molly reads aloud. When the waters recede, she even helps them tidy up downstairs. Without condescension, Tyler presents a child's-eye view of glorious muss in a witty, economical narrative, while--in a fine picture-book debut--Modarressi (Tyler's daughter) details the disarray in angular forms and flat, carefully structured compositions, with expressive, delicately modeled faces adding a subtler dimension to Tyler's message. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Winslow Pels. The beautiful but cold-hearted Princess Turandot decrees that in order to win her, suitors must answer three riddles or be executed. A Persian prince, Calaf, smitten after one look at the young woman, determines to try his luck. Though he answers her riddles correctly, she still refuses to marry him. Because he adores her, he offers her a way out. If she can guess his name, he will leave Peking. This story was introduced by the Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), whose dramatized fairy tales were enormously popular during his lifetime. His version, said to be drawn from a tale he found in The Arabian Nights, widely impressed European romantics. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st , 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket with chipping, but bright. Illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Brad Sneed. Light sticker residue to rear of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice color illustrations by Lobel. Minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/Harper, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 26 b&w line drawings by Jessie Robinson. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Color illustrations by Ve Elisabeth Cadie. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Color illustrated paper covered boards with top and bottom edgewear. Corners worn.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2008, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. TURTLE IS SO excited by the book about penguins that his dad reads him at bedtime that he decides he wants to be a penguin. So the next morning, he creates a penguin costume, grabs his book, and heads for the schoolbus. This delightful picture book from Valeri Gorbachev celebrates both the power of books, and the joys of imaginative play in all its dress-up-box glory. And, with the extra penguin facts at the end of the book, this is a perfect blueprint for teachers planning penguin days of their own.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mitra. Waking up on his birthday with a toothache, Elephant visits the dentist and learns about proper tooth care. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 89 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Marshall Cavendish , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. SIGNED by Spirin on half title page. Gennady Spirin's sumptuous paintings bring new life and spectacular beauty to this classic song, making it a gift to be treasured at Christmastime. An Illustrator's Note is included which addresses the song's origin and history.

New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front end paper pastedown. Color illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, color illustrations throughout by Mars. Clean copy. Wonder Book # 651.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Historical tale of a 16-year old during the Crusades. B&w illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Row, Peterson and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrations by John Holmgren. Dust jacket faded, front edge starting to fray. Some foxing on end papers, pages clean. Price sticker inside dust jacket. Adventures of Peter and Penny and their Newfoundland dog on Nantucket Island.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black titles, color label on front cover. Color and b&w plates by Arnold Hicks. Some short tears to pages, not affecting plates. Covers with edgewear, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket illustrated, B&W drawings by Diana Thorne. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.