childrens poetry

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caldecott Honor sticker on front. Collections of poems which looks at animals, insects & plants found in ponds. Outstanding illus (woodcuts) complement this charming volume. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Love Songs of the Little Bear Friendship Box Four adorable board books, one for each season of the year and packaged in a carrying case with a plastic handle. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON FRONT OF GIFT BOX.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED WITH DRAWING BY AUTHOR TO FRONT PRELIM PAGE. Collection of children's poems with b&w illustrations by Marc Simont. Color illustrated dust jacket show light wear. Overall a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Non-paginated. Color illust. by Elsa Eisgruber. In the scarce dust jacket with light soil and chipping. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Acclaimed British children's author and artist Shirley Hughes presents a selection of poetry and prose in this winter-time collection, with text accompanied by her atmospheric illustrations. The nine selections here include six poems and three stories, one of them wordless. Clean copy.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail, give a free-spirited interpretation of the poem. Together, words and pictures evoke the lush scents, sounds, and feel of the full lingering days of summer, when outside and inside is lost in the doorways. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR WITH A SKETCH on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated with spectacular watercolor-splashed pages by Meilo So. Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer. From sibling rivalry, school, monsters, food, and just plain silliness, to such ageless themes as the seasons, Who am I?, and the many moods of childhood, this is a collection that begs to be read aloud and shared with the whole family. The poems, from every decade of this century, showcase 137 famous poets.

Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with fading to spine. B&w drawings by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt decoration, 352 pages. A magnificent treasury of popular folklore, this rare, hardcover compilation offers a bounty of delightful illustrations by Charles Robinson -- there are black-and-white illustrations on every page as well as 16 plates of full- and two-color images. Decorative initials and borders, hand lettering, silhouettes, and other ornaments embellish renderings of 300 traditional verses, from "Little Tom Tucker" and "Baa, Baa Black Sheep" to "Good King Arthur" and "Shave a Pig." A facsimile reproduction of the 1903 edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on cover. A bright reprint of the book originally printed in 1921. Color frontis and b&w drawings throughout by Herford. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Corinne Malvern. Appears to be 5th printing with "E" on last page. Clean, bright 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. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Arnold Lobel. The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Moffat, Yard and Company , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated endpapers. Beige linen cloth over boards. Previous owner gift inscription on verso of frontispiece. No bumping or soiling. Bright gold foil titling, and double circle with illustration pasted on front cover. images by Jessie Willcox Smith on each page plus a color frontispiece and six color plates all by Smith.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrations by Jim Downer. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brown, very clean, tight copy, like new.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Blanche Fisher Wright. Copyright date is 1917, Lovely book of nursery rhymes. Paper chipping to spine covering. Binding is holding but fragile. No markings.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 41 pages. Color illust. by Beisner. Laminated boards with crisp finish, illustrated in color front and back.

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.