Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unpriced ($3.50) dust jacket that has chipping and edgewear. The Guard Mouse tells the story of Clyde, a mouse who works as a King's Guard outside Buckingham Palace. Upon stepping down from his position one day, the Guard Mouse hears his name being called - his long-lost cousins from abroad have come to visit him. The story follows the mice on the adventures they get up to in the night, including a detour to Covent Garden Market and a ride on the top of a double-decker tour bus, before duty calls the Guard Mouse back to his sentry box in front of Buckingham Palace the next morning. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with red and black lettering and illustrations on front cover and spine. Six b&w plates by B. West Clinedinst. Title page dated 1901, copyright page dated 1899. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. First Edition. Two little brothers in a quandary as to what they should get their Mother for her birthday. Light edgewear, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. An I Can Read Book. Charming tale of little Davy & how he makes perfect gift for mother's birthday. Bright, clean copy of a book first published in 1962.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by June Head. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Color illustrations in the style of Thornton Burgess. Clean copy.

NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ungerer. The black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. Clean copy.

NY, Sun Dial Press, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 249 pages. Illustrated endpapers, 8 glossy, full-page color illustrations as well as b&w drawings by Marguerite Kirmse. No dust jacket. Small bump to top corner of cover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages, illustrated in color by Holden. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 26 pages. English version by Pia Kummer. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Kokoko the hen announces she will keep house when Labourd, the old peasant, and his family leave the farmhouse but the hen and her animal friends find housekeeping harder then they thought. Illustrated in two-colors by Emma Brock. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Nice reprint of a book first published in 1933.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, color art throughout by Carter Goodrich. The hermit crab would prefer to blend into the background. He is happy to spend his time alone, looking for food. But when he finds a flashy new shell, he can't resist trying it on for size. He is so taken with it that he doesn't notice the mysterious contraption that floats down from the surface. While the lobster wonders if the contraption is a restaurant and the bluefish thinks it's a trap, the poor flounder gets stuck underneath! When the hungry hermit crab investigates the delicious smells coming from the contraption and frees the flounder, he inadvertently becomes a hero. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with large color illustrated paper label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 color plates and pictorial endpapers by F.C. Yohn. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE AND FRONTIS by Thomas and Yohn. Scarce thus. Three small chips to cover label, name on inside blank page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Two friends decide that playing hide and seek isn't as much fun as doing things together. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Books, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Chiyoko Nakatani. The zoo hippo family of "Wake up Hippopotamus" ferry the other animals to safety when floods come. Lovely long hippo pictures extend across spreads. Mild musty odor, No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Frontis illustration loose but present. Illustration and gold embossed title on cover. Some discoloration to spine, otherwise good. Black & white Illustrations by J.O.B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, cartoon illustrations by Syd Hoff. Light soiling to covers. Book Club edition, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 43 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Garrett Price. Blue dust jacket scuffed at corners and top and bottom spine. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, and illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown cover boards (light agewear) with black design on front cover board and spine. No dust jacket. Some tanning and smudges to pages and edges from age. In very good condition. Original owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1970, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Articles include No Laughter in Heaven by Lloyd Alexander, Three Times Lonely: The Plight of the Mexican Child in the American Southwest, The Art of Elizabeth Enright, others. Light stamp to front wrapper, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1942, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Contains "Jack Darby on Writing Books for Children" by Walter D. Edmonds, Robert McCloskey's Caldecott acceptance speech, Of Rachel Field and Letters by Bertha Mahony, other articles on Field. Worn copy with wrinkling to pages.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Wonderful fantasy about a boy in love with magic who gets to meet the greatest magician of them all. B&w illustrations by Selznick.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran , BC Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. Two-color frontis, b&w drawings by Erick Berry. This story, written for young adults, is about three children who have lost their parents, living in the Tennessee mountains and trying to keep life and limb together. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.