children illustrated

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? 

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? 

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Booth. Clean, very tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Milford, Conn., Roaring Brook Press, 2nd Printing, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout by the author, clean, tight and bright copy.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Schwartz. This amusing picture book features Darlene, a relatively svelte hippo, and a cast of other dressed animals in three connected stories. With stars in her eyes, Darlene signs up for theater class and lands a role as "the Flood" in Noah's ark. On opening night she enters, entangles her feet in her long gown, and missing her target, flings a basin of water onto the critic in the first row. His review? "?a drenching, yet refreshing experience. Miss Darlene's performance was especially exciting." Two more plays follow, a science fiction drama in which Darlene flubs her lines, and Sleeping Beauty, which finds the hippo falling asleep onstage. The critic raves "A STAR IS BORN," and the story ends with Darlene's contented smile. Brightened with delicate washes, the fine, clean ink drawings create a series of charming, often droll scenes.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.

NY, Atheneum, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that is price-clipped. Color illustrations by Leslie Holt Morrill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books/HarpersCollins Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON BLANK PRELIM PAGE. Story retold by Tor Seidler. Maroon boards with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, gorgeous full-page color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. No signs of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in superb condition.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. An adventure set against the building of the Panama Canal. Color frontispiece and 3 black & white plates by B. J. Rosenmeyer. In a very good dust jacket (not illustrated, type only) minor chipping. No date on title page so presumed 1930s printing.

NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, black & white pictures by Donald McKay. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Abrahm Yarmolinsky. Black & brown & white illustrations by Janina Domanska. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Wolff. INSCRIBED BY WOLFF with her color rubber stamps of a rabbit and turtle on title page, dated 1994.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas.Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors going about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Light wear to cover edges, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Energetic full-page pictures depict the old standard, written by Edward Bangs, who was a Minuteman at Lexington during his sophomore year at Harvard the year (1775) he adapted the song. Mild musty odor. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by author.

Softcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY SMALL on half-title page. David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Like new, clean and tight.

Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hall. A native Alaskan folktale tells about a raven who punishes humans for destroying nature by blocking out the sun to make Earth cold and dark, but a woman finds a feather from the bird that may have the secret to saving the planet.

Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 106 pages, illustrations by Donald A. Mackay throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tear on top edge. Clean and bright pages and tight binding. Story of a young boy who feels out of place in his own family. Gus Oliver lives with his several siblings and parents in rural upstate New York. He is nicknamed "the stone face boy." Gus is a strange and awkward boy but likable. When a stray dog is befriended by his sister, he doesn't take an immediate like to him. When the dog goes missing one night, it appears only Gus can find him before the dog is hunted or trapped in the cold winter night.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;