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This is a list of all our online catalog entries in section "pics". Browse through the list and put a check mark next to the ones you want to remember. When you are finished, you can review the selections you made and print or order them.

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Abbreviations I've used are: Ill.=illustrated or illustrator; f/p=full-page; b/w=black and white; FE=first edition (may be the first edition by this illustrator); DJ=dust jacket; o/w=otherwise; dec=decorative; Ex-lib=ex-library book with markings accordingly; FFEP=front free end papers; c=copyright; BCE=book club edition; FIAR=five-in-a-row book.

The grading I've used: Mint=like new; F=fine; VG=very good, better than average; G=good, average wear and tear; Fair, reading copy, but all there. If there are two gradings (i.e. VG/VG), the first is the book, the second the dust jacket.

Sizing is as follows: 6"-7", 16mo; 7"-8", 12mo; 8"-10", 8vo; 10"-12", 4to; larger than 12", folio.

PICTURE BOOKS – FICTION
Alexander, Martha. NOBODY ASKED ME IF I WANTED A BABY SISTER. Dial Books 1971, 1977. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Good, library card pocket. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Andersen, Hans Christian. THUMBELINA, Translated by R. P. Keigwin. Charles Scribner’s 1961. Hardcover. Sweet illustrations by Adrienne Adams.First published in Denmark. A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and has many adventures and makes many animal friends. The soft, magnificent illustrations are so suitable to Andersen’s sweet story. Ambleside 2. Ex-lib. with no marks on dust jacket; stamps on endpapers. Small ½” tear along spine gutter. $5.photo of the actual item
     
Anno, Mitsumasa. ANNO’S COUNTING BOOK. Thomas Y. Crowell 1977, first U. S. edition. Hardcover. Created to provide children with an opportunity to arrive at the ultimate understanding of numbers in a natural and pleasant way. Very Good. Previous owner’s name stickers. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Anno, Mitsumasa, illustrator. SOCRATES AND THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, text by Tuyosi Mori. Philomel 1986, first US edition; originally published in Tokyo in 1985. Hardcover. A wolf’s attempt to figure out in which of five houses he is most likely to find one of the three little pigs introduces such mathematical concepts as combinatorial analysis, permutations, and probabililties. Very Good with library stamp on title page. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Barber, Antonia. THE MOUSEHOLE CAT. Macmillan 1990, first American edition. Hardcover. Ill. Nicola Bayley. Wonderfully creative, very-English story of a “quayside” cat and her own pet, old Tom, who, when he was not looking after Mowzer, passed the day in his little boat catching fish for Mowzer’s dinner and the village of Mousehole. Charming story of warmth, love, and courage as they faced “the Great Storm-Cat” to get food for the starving children. A winner! 0027083314. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Barklem, Jill. WINTER STORY, Brambly Hedge. Philomel 1980. Hardcover. Ill. Barklem. 0399207481. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Bedford, Annie North. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN. Barnes & Noble 1997. Hardcover. Ill. Corinne Malvern. Adapted from the song of the same name. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Blake, Robert J. SWIFT. Philomel 2007, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Johnnie is finally getting his chance to hunt in the Alaskan wilderness with his father and his dog, Swift. A grizzly attacks and the hunt turns into a rescue mission as Johnnie and Swift make the journey through unbelievably dangerous conditions to get help. 0399233830. Brand-new. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Bryant, Beatrice. LET’S BE FRIENDS. Children’s Press 1947, 1954. Hardcover. Ill. by Becky. Butch has never played with other children. When he starts kindergarten he gets off to a bad start, but soon learns to make friends. Good with some interior spots. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Carroll, Ruth. WHAT WHISKERS DID. Henry Z. Walck 1932, 1965. Hardcover. Ill. by Carroll. Adorable pictures with no words. Whiskers is a poodle who gets into a very unusual situation when he breaks his leash and escapes from a fox while chasing a rabbit. He is welcomed into the rabbit family burrow, causing tears when he leaves to go back to his delighted owner. Ex-lib. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Cooney, Barbara, illustrator. ROXABOXEN, by Alice McLerran. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1991, first edition, second printing. Signed by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 0. CM 0. FIAR. Like-New. $15.photo of the actual item
    
Damjan, Mischa. THE CLOWN SAID NO. North-South Books 1987, first published in Switzerland in 1986. Translated by Althea Bell. Hardcover. Ill. Jozef Wilkon. The clown was tired of laughing and crying and playing the fool (he wanted to tell stories); the donkey was tired of the stubborn donkey act (he was not at all stubborn); Louise the giraffe, Gus the Lion, and Otto the Dog were also tired of their silly acts. So the friends ran away and started their own circus just the way they wanted it. Delightful illustrations. Almost new, with previous owner’s name erased. $5.photo of the actual item
  
Duncan, Jane. JANET REACHFAR AND THE KELPIE. Edinburgh: Macmillan 1976, 2002. Hardcover. Ill. Mairi Hedderwick (author, illustrator of the Katie Morag books). Story of the Highlands of Scotland. Ex-lib. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Flack, Marjorie. THE STORY ABOUT PING. Viking 1938, 1961 BCE. Hardcover. Ambleside 0. CM. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Gag, Wanda. SNIPPY AND SNAPPY. University of Minnesota Press 1931, 2003. Hardcover. Ill. by Gag. Two little country mice go in search of a “cupboard full of cheese,” something they have never experienced, and come upon a house, which is also something they have never seen. Cute story. Small format. 0816642451. Ex-lib. with just a small date stamp. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Golden Book. WALT DISNEY’S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. Golden Press 1952, 1980. Hardcover. Giant Golden Book. Story adapted by Jane Werner. Good, wear at spine ends and corners. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hegg, Tom. PEEF AND HIS BEST FRIEND. Waldman House 2001, first edition. Hardcover. Written by Author of Peef the Christmas Bear. Signed by author and illustrator. Ill. Warren Hanson. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Henkes, Kevin. KITTEN’S FIRST FULL MOON. Greenwillow Books 2004, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. When Kitten sees her first full moon she is sure it is a bowl of milk in the sky and she wants it. Your little people will love kitten’s adventure and the happy ending to the story. 0060588292. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Herriot, James. JAMES HERRIOT’S TREASURY FOR CHILDREN. St. Martin’s Press 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes all of Herriot’s children’s stories. Ambleside 0. 0312085125. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket torn, nice in new protective cover. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Ipcar, Dahlov. ONE HORSE FARM. Doubleday & Co. 1950. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Ipcar. Delightful story set on an American farm in the early 1900’s, with fascinating details about life in that era. Betty is a big work horse that plows, harvests, pulls the sleigh to harvest ice in the pond, brings home the cows at the end of the day, and more. When she gets old and tired and is replaced by a shiny new tractor, she is allowed to spend her days frolicking in the pasture. Love this one! NOT ex-lib. Very Good. Two pages have small edge tears repaired with non-cellophane, professional book repair tape. $10.photo of the actual item
     
Jacobs, Joseph. JOHNNY-CAKE. G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1933. Ill. Emma L. Brock. Hardcover. Very reminiscent of the “Gingerbread Man.” Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Kent, Jack. MRS. MOOLEY. Golden Books 1973, 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. How Mrs. Mooley manages to jump over the moon just like in the picture book makes a humorous story to delight little people. Whimsical illustrations by Kent. 0307106861. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Kerr, Judith. MOG THE FORGETFUL CAT. Parents’ Magazine Press 1972. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Mog is a nuisance until the end of the story when she stops a burglary and becomes a hero. Good, wear at top of spine. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Kipling, Rudyard. HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS. Rabbit Ear Books 1989. Hardcover. Kipling’s original text from Just So Stories with colorful illustrations by Lori Lohstoeter. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. 0887081118. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Knight, Hilary. THE CIRCUS IS COMING. A Golden Book. Golden Press 1978. Hardcover. Vibrant, colorful illustrations by Knight. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Krauss, Ruth. A VERY SPECIAL HOUSE. Harper Collins 1953, 1981. Pictorial hardcover. This is a little boy’s hymn of joy to the house of his dreams, where he and a giant and several animals have an extraordinary time in rhythm and rhyme. Very appropriate, hilarious illustrations by Maurice Sendak. NOT ex-lib. Two scuff marks on cover; one page has repaired tear. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Leaf, Munro. NOODLE. Arthur A. Levine 1937, 2006. Hardcover. Ill. Ludwig Bemelmans. Noodle is a little dachshund who thinks perhaps he would like to be a different size and shape. After questioning the other animals, he makes the right decision. Book Fine, no dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Lindgren, Astrid. THE TOMTEN. Adapted by Astrid Lindgren from a Poem by Viktor Rydberg. Coward-McCann 1967. Ill. Harald Wiberg. Winters come and summers go, year follows year, but as slong s people live at the old farm in the forest, everynight the Tomten will trip around between the houses on his small silent feet, making sure all is well. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
   
MacDonald, George. LITTLE DAYLIGHT, A Fairy Story. Adapted and illustrated by Erick Ingraham. 0688063004. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket good with library label cut from dust jacket. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
McNulty, Faith. MOUSE AND TIM. Harper & Row/Weekly Reader 1978. Hardcover. Ill. Marc Simont. A boy and a mouse each from his own point of view reflect on their relationship. Cute story. Good. $3.photo of the actual item
    
Munari, Bruno. BRUNO MUNARI’S ZOO. Chronicle Books 2005, first published in 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright, bold illustrations and text with wry humor that will be appreciated by older readers. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Nelson, Marilyn. SNOOK ALONE. Candlewick Press 2010, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with wit and warmth by Timothy Basil Ering. Abba Jacob is a monk who lives on a faraway island with his loyal rat terrier, Snook. But when the two are separated by a ferocious storm Snook must learn to fend for himself in the wild. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Ness, Evaline. SAM, BANGS & MOONSHINE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston/Weekly Reader Children’s Bok Club 1966. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by the author. Imaginative and humorous story that creatively emphasizes the importance of the difference between “moonshine” and reality in a child’s life. Near-Fine. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Pinkney, Jerry. THE LION AND THE MOUSE. Little, Brown 2009, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Caldecott Medal 2010. Stunningly rendered wordless adaptation of Aesop’s fable. Illustrations by Pinkney are magnificent. 0316013560. Brand-New. $12.photo of the actual item
       
Piper, Watty. THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD. Platt & Munk 1930, 2007. Hardcover. Ill. by Lois Lenski. Originally illustrated by Lenski but then changed to Watty Piper’s illustrations; the wonderful Lenski edition as been reprinted. Ambleside 0. 0760794936. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Price, Margaret Evans, illustrator. MY BOOK OF OLD-TIME FAIRY TALES, first published in the 1920’s. Barnes & Noble 2007, first edition thus. 17 stories: “Beauty and the Beast;” “Jack the Giant-Killer;” “Rumpelstiltskin;” “The Teeny-Tiny Woman:” etc. 13 full-page color illustrations and numerous half-page color ill. Folio-size. NOT ex-lib. Very Good with faint stain at bottom of front cover. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Rojankovsky, Feodor. GREAT BIG ANIMAL BOOK. A Golden Book. Golden Press 1982. Hardcover. Large, colorful, beautiful farm animal illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Good, corners worn. $8.photo of the actual item
      
Say, Allen. TREE OF CRANES. Scholastic 1992. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. A little Japanese boy has a very special Christmas – his first in America. 0590462377. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
  
Schlein, Miriam. AMAZING MR. PELGREW. Abelard Schuman 1957. Hardcover. Ill. Harvey Weiss. What a delightful story! Steven and Mr. Pelgrew are neighbors and very good friends. But Steven is puzzled by Mr. Pelgrew’s job description. There is a surprise ending when Steven goes into town and sees Mr. Pelgrew at his job. NOT ex-lib. Good with previous owner’s name inside front cover. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Dr. Seuss. THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE. Random House 1948, 1975, BCE. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Seuss. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Stolz, Mary. STORM IN THE NIGHT. HarperCollins 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pat Cummings. Story of a magical, stormy night and a special relationship between a boy and his grandfather. FIAR. . Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Tip-Top Elf Book. PENNY AND PETE’S SURPRISE, by Ruth Lewis Shuman. Rand McNally 1949. Hardcover. Ill. Clare McKinley. 35-cent price. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Titus, Eve. ANATOLE. McGraw Hill 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Paul Galdone. Anatole, the happiest, most contented mouse in all France, became the official cheese taster at the Duval Cheese Factory. A children’s classic! NOT ex-lib. Book has slight rippling to one corner of pages. Dust jacket Good with small chips. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. THE RABBIT STORY. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1957, 1989. Hardcover. Ill. Carolyn Ewing. First edition with these watercolor illustrations. Quiet and gentle story of a wild rabbit who is born in a snug, fur-lined burrow, then trapped and put in a cage by the farmer’s son. She escapes and joyously returns to the wild, eventually sharing her own burrow with four tiny rabbits. Wonderful illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Fine with previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Tudor, Tasha. TASHA TUDOR’S BEDTIME BOOK. Platt & Munk 1977, 1980. Folio-size hardcover. Ill. by Tudor. “Goldilocks,” “The Frog Prince,” ”Snow White,” 11 other classic children’s stories with full-page color ill. by Tudor. Faint water mark at bottom of pages and light rippling to corner of some pages. NOT ex-lib. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Visconti, Guido. THE SCARECROW WHO WANTED A HUG. Great Britain: Floris Books 2002, first published in Italian. Hardcover. Ill. Giovanna Osellame. Barnaby was a happy scarecrow who let his friends peck at the grain in the field in exchange for their help in carrying messages to Gwendoline, the lady scarecrow whom he loved very much. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Weil, Lisl. LET’S GO TO THE CIRCUS. Holiday House 1988, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. One library stamp. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Williams, Vera B. and Jennifer. STRINGBEAN’S TRIP TO THE SHINING SEA. Greenwillow Books 1988, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stringbean Coe, his big brother Fred, and their dog Potato are driving from Kansas to California in a pickup truck with a little house built on the back. Reading the postcards they send home every day is the next best thing to having a cross-country adventure all your own. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
     
PICTURE-BOOK BIOGRAPHY
Blos, Joan W. THE DAYS BEFORE NOW, An Autobiographical Note by Margaret Wise Brown. Simon & Schuster 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Thomas B. Allen. Here, in her own words, are brief, early recollections by Margaret Wise Brown, describing the “brick city” in which she was born at the turn of the century and her family’s move to the beaches and woods of Long Island. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar. WINGS FOR PER. Beautiful Feet SOFTCOVER 1944. 2018. As he grows up, a young Norwegian boy is taught to value highly the freedom he has in his country. Later, as he see the Nazis overrun his country and take away those freedoms, he works with the underground and then escapes to America where he learns to fly a plane so he can fight to regain what his country has lost. Excellent, relevant story to today’s world. 1893103781. Brand-New. $25.photo of the actual item
 
Demi. COLUMBUS. Amazon Publishing 2012, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Demi’s exquisite illustrations use Chinese paintbrushes and inks, gold overlays, and Italian marbled paper from Italy. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Demi. MARIE CURIE. Henry Holt 2018, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vivid, detailed illustrations by Demi. Children’s bio of one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. 1627793895. Brand-New. $13.50.photo of the actual item
     
Eubank, Patricia Reeder. SEAMAN’S JOURNAL, On the Trail with Lewis and Clark. Ideals Children’s 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Based on the true entries in Lewis’s own journal, this book presents their expedition through the eyes of Lewis’s dog Seaman. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 1-3. 082494424. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine with previous owner’s name. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Visconti, Guido. THE GENIUS OF LEONARDO. Barefoot Books 2000, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Bimba Landmann. Leonardo’s new apprentice watches closely as his wise and eccentric master sets the broken wing of a bird, invents new machines, plays the harp, and paints masterpieces like the Mona Lisa. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Winter, Kay. ABE LINCOLN, THE BOY WHO LOVED BOOKS. Simon & Schuster 2003, stated first edition. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Nancy Carpenter. Attention-grabbing text and illustrations creatively tell how a boy who loved to read changed the world forever. Excellent! Truthquest Age of Revolution II grade1-3. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION / LIVING HISTORY PICTURE BOOKS
Hyde, Heidi Smith. MENDEL’S ACCORDION. Kar-Ben Publishing 2007, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Johanna van der Sterre. Mendel plays Klezmer music all over eastern Europe until times get hard and there is not enough to eat. Then he boards a ship that will take him to America. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Spradlin, Michael P. DANIEL BOONE’S GREAT ESCAPE. Walker & Co. 2008, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Picture book story of Boone’s daring and courageous escape from the Shawnee Indians to warn Kentucky settlers of the planned attack. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Wargin, Kathy-Jo. THE VOYAGEUR’S PADDLE. Sleeping Bear Press 2007, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by author and illustrator. Great illustrations by David Geister. Young Jacques’ father is a voyageur, a name given to those who sold furs and goods along water routes in the Great Lakes region in the 17th century. As he awaits his father’s return from a season of trading, he dreams of the day he will join the ranks of voyageurs. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine with previous owner’s name. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Yolen, Jane. MY BROTHERS’ FLYING MACHINE, Wilbur, Orville, and Me, Kitty Hawk 1903. Little, Brown 2003, first edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Paintings by Jim Burke. Katharine tells the story of growing up with and encouraging her older brothers as they developed their “flying machines.” Fascinating story for young boys – and girls! Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
INSPIRATIONAL PICTURE BOOKS
Peretti, Frank. ALL IS WELL, The Miracle of Christmas in July. Integrity Publishers 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Gary Glover. Peretti gently reminds each of us that through the provision of our loving God and the kindness of others, we can celebrate the joy of Christmas all year long. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine, dust jacket Near-fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Tudor, Tasha, illustrator. GIVE US THIS DAY, THE LORD’S PRAYER. Philomel 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. 0399214429. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Wilkin, Eloise. PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN. A Big Golden Book. Golden Press 1952, first edition. Hardcover. Prayers by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, others. Clean and sound but last three pages have 1” tears repaired with professional non-cellophane book repair tape. NOT ex-lib. $5.photo of the actual item
      
SOFTCOVER CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS
Anderson, Lena, illustrator. ANNA’S SUMMER SONGS, poems by Mary Q. Steele. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1984, 1991. Anna’s joyous songs celebrate everything that grows. Very Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Bouchard, David. IF YOU’RE NOT FROM THE PRAIRIE. Aladdin SOFTCOVER 1995. Visual and poetic journey recalling the bittersweet memories of living in this diverse land. Beautiful paintings by Henry Ripplinger. A treasure!  0689820356. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
   
Dalgliesh, Alice. THE THANKSGIVING STORY. Sonlight Curriculum SOFTCOVER 1954, 2001. Ill. by Dalgliesh. Great Thanksgiving story, giving thanks to God for His keeping and provision. CM. Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
  
Daugherty, James. ANDY AND THE LION, A Tale of Kindness Remembered or The Power of Gratitude. Puffin SOFTCOVER 1938, 1967. Ill. by Daugherty. FIAR. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Franklin, Benjamin. THE HATMAKER’S SIGN, A Story by Benjamin Franklin, Retold lby Candace Fleming. Scholastic/Orchard Books SOFTCOVER 1999. Ill. by Robert Andrew Parker. FIAR. 0439071798. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Galvin, Laura Gates. DEER MOUSE AT OLD FARM ROAD, Smithsonian’s Backyard. Smithsonian Institute SOFTCOVER 2003. Ill. Katy Bratun. This series brings a world of wonder for children intrigued by the wildlife outside their bedroom windows. SCM. Very Good with previous owner’s name. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Spier, Peter. PEOPLE. Doubleday Trumpet Club SOFTCOVER 1980. Ill. by Spier. People come in all sizes, shapes and colors and live in all kinds of places in all kids of weather. Folio-size. 0440841976. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Spier, Peter. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. Bantam Doubleday 1973, 1990. SOFTCOVER. The words to our national anthem with intricately detailed illustrations by Spier. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 1-6. Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
POETRY FOR CHILDREN / YOUNG PEOPLE
Attenborough, Liz, compiler. POETRY BY HEART, A Child’s Book of Poems to Remember. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2003. 4to. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Attenborough, Liz, compiler. POETRY BY HEART, A Child’s Book of Poems to Remember. Scholastic/The ChickenHouse 2001, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wide-ranging collection includes poetry from Roald Dahl, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Langson Hughes, others. Variety of illustrators. Foreword by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, UK. 4to. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Clark, Betsey, illustrator. HELLO, SUNSHINE! Charming and Delightful Proverbs to Warm the Heart. Hallmark Crown Editions 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. These timeless thoughts and Betsey Clark’s charming little people will add sunshine to every day. Book and dust jacket Very Good with tiny chip in front of dust jacket; previous owner’s name. $4.photo of the actual item
 
de la Mare, Walter. TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND, A Book of Poetry for Children Chosen and Annotated by de la Mare. Alfred A. Knopf 1961, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Margery Gill. 202 pages of classic children’s poems plus notes. Ex-lib. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Esbensen, Barbara Juster. SWING AROUND THE SUN. Carolrhoda Books 2003, poems first published in 1965. First edition with these illustrations. A collection of beautiful poems that celebrate the seasons, with illustrations for each season by a different Minnesota artist: Cheng-Khee Chee, Janice Lee Porter, Mary GrandPre and Stephen Gammell. Living Science. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Ferris, Helen. FAVORITE POEMS OLD AND NEW. Doubleday 1957. Hardcover with dustjacket. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. CM Alveary. 0385076967. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $25.photo of the actual item
 
Field, Eugene. WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD. E. P. Dutton 1982. Hardcover. Ill. by Susan Jeffers. Ambleside 0. 0525440224. Fine, previous owner’s name whited out. $8.50.photo of the actual item
   
Fujikawa, Gyo, illustrator. MOTHER GOOSE. Grosset & Dunlap 1968, 1982. 0448018101. Very good. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Selected by. AMERICA AT WAR. Margaret K. McElderry 2008, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Stephen Alcorn. Collection of fifty poems that trace emotions of warfare from the American Revolution to the Iraq War. Pays fitting tribute to those who have served, those now serving, and those who have given their lives so we all may live in peace. 1416918329. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
   
Jackson, Leroy F. THE PETER PATTER BOOK, Rhymes by Leroy F. Jackson. Barnes & Noble 2007, first published 1918. Hardcover. Ill. Blanche Fisher Wright. 88 pp. Folio-size, 12”. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Koch, Kenneth and Farrell, Kate. TALKING TO THE SUN, An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. Henry Holt and Metropolitan Museum of Art 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket. Splendid and diverse treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art increase a young reader’s enjoyment and understanding of these classic children’s poems. 112 pp. with index. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Brand-New with slight flaw in dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. HIAWATHA, Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Dial Books 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. Enthralling illustrations illuminate some of the poem’s most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha’s boyhood. Folio-size, more than 12”. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. HIAWATHA, Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Dial Books 1983. Hardcover. Enthralling illustrations illuminate some of the poem’s most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha’s boyhood. Folio-size, more than 12”. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
McFarland, Wilma. FOR A CHILD, Great Poems Old and New. Westminster Press 1947. Hardcover. Adorable illustrations by Ninon with familiar and not-so-familiar poems by a variety of children’s poets. 96 pp. 4to. Ex-lib. Library binding. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Milne, A. A. THE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN BOOK OF VERSE, Selected from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six with new illustrations in full color by E H. Shepard. E. P. Dutton 1967, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 63 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with previous owner’s name. $8.50.photo of the actual item
   
Milne, A. A. NOW WE ARE SIX. Dutton 1920, 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 1. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. Dutton 1928, 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 1. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Noyes, Alfred. THE HIGHWAYMAN. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dramatic color illustrations by Neil Waldman. Ambleside 6. Ex-lib. with minimal marks, no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Opie, Iona, Editor. MY VERY FIRST MOTHER GOOSE. Candlewick Press 1996, first U. S. edition. Hardcover. Simple, child-friendly illustrations by Rosemary Wells. 107 pp. 1564026205. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Rossetti, Christina. WHAT IS PINK? Macmillan 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Jose Aruego. Ambleside 2. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Sage, Alison, editor. TREASURY OF CHILDREN’S POETRY. Great Britain: Hutchinson 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket. 319 pp. with Index of Titles; Index of Poets; Index of Illustrators. Illustrations by Tony Ross, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Jessie Willcox Smith, Shel Silverstein, Charlotte Voake, Eleanor Farjeon, many others. Poetry by William Blake, Margaret Wise Brown, Robert Browning, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsey, Walt Whitman and a host of others. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine; dust jacket clean with a ½” tear at one corner. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Smith, Jessie Willcox. THE JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH MOTHER GOOSE. Derrydale 1986, first published 1914. Hardcover with dust jacket. 17 full-page drawings by Smith, 12 in full color. 750 nursery rhymes. Ambleside 0. 0517603578. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Golden Book 1951, 2017. Pictorial hardcover. Colorful and creative illustrations by the Provensens, many full-page and double-page. Folio-size, more than 12”. Ambleside 0. 0399555382. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
     
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence. CASEY AT THE BAT, A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888. Scholastic Inc. 2001, first edition. Hardcover. “Copiously and faithfully illustrated by Christopher Bing.” Great poem giving truth to the verse “Pride going before destruction.” 0439336767. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Tudor, Tasha, selected and illustrated by. ALL FOR LOVE. Philomel Books 1984. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Love songs, quotes, poetry, beautiful Tudor illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $8.50.photo of the actual item
    
Untermeyer, Louis, Selected by. THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF POETRY. Golden Press 1959, 1962. Pictorial hardcover. Charming illustrations in b/w and color by Joan Walsh Anglund. More than 400 poems for your kids to grow on that will make them laugh and cry and learn to love poetry. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good, some wear to spine ends. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Wilkie, Ellen. TIME FOR A RHYME. Start-Right Elf Book. Checkerboard Press 1966. Hardcover. Ill. Sharon Kane. Great start for rhyming words, with large, simple illustrations. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
   
Wright, Blanche Fisher, illustrator. THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE. Barnes & Noble 1992, first published 1916. Hardcover. Full-page color illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright. Ambleside 0. CM Alveary. Previous owner’s name and card pocket. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Wright, Blanche Fisher, illustrator. THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE. Scholastic/Cartwheel Books 1994, first published 1916. Hardcover. Full-page color illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright. Ambleside 0. CM Alveary. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Yolen, Jane & Peters, Andrew Fusek. HERE’S A LITTLE POEM, A Very First Book of Poetry. Candlewick Press 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Polly Dunbar. Short poems that capture a young child’s delight in daily experiences and routines, written by A A. Milne, Myra Cohn Livingston, Jack Prelutsky, Langston Hughes, and others, and exuberantly illustrated by Polly Dunbar. Large format, 10 ½” x 11 ½” and 105 pp. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
BIOGRAPHIES FOR YOUNG READERS
Aliki. THE STORY OF WILLIAM PENN. Prentice-Hall/E. M. Hale 1964. Pictorial hardcover. William Penn came to the New World, claimed his land and named it Pennsylvania. Brief text and fascinating illustrations will captivate young children and start them on a journey learning about their country’s history. CM Alveary. Ex-lib. Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Graves, Charles P. JOHN MUIR. A Crowell Biography. Thomas Y. Crowell 1973, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Robert Levering. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Greene, Carol. MARCO POLO VOYAGER TO THE ORIENT. Children’s Press 1987. Hardcover. Ambleside 3. 0516032291. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Pollard, Josephine. THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON In Words of One Syllable. Beautiful Feet SOFTCOVER, first published 1893 by McLoughlin Brothers. Written in single syllables for the early reader, the rich text and dramatic descriptions of the events of Washington’s life accompanied by several b/w, full-page illustrations from the original book, will appeal to all ages.. 1893103064. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Barbara Cary. Random House 1965, later printing. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades K-3. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.50photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET ANDREW JACKSON, by Ormonde deKay. Random House 1967. Pictorial hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II Grades K-3. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Maggi Scarf. Random House 1968. Pictorial hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades K-3. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET THE MEN WHO SAILED THE SEAS, by John Dyment. Random House 1968. Pictorial hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
BIOGRAPHIES FOR OLDER CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULTS
A Beka Book. A BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Piioneer President, by William M. Thayer. Sons of Liberty Series. Originally published 1882. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Adler, David A. GEORGE WASHINGTON, AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY. Holiday House 2004, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full story of the life of George Washington told with quotes from his correspondence and accounts by his peers and accompanied with b/w detailed historical illustrations and maps every page. 274 pp. Ex-lib. with minimal marks. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Little, Brown 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 9. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good in new protective cover. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Franklin, Benjamin. A BENJAMIN FRANKLIN READER, The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage, including The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin. Barnes & Noble 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. 076077546x. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Hines, Stephen W. “I REMEMBER LAURA,” LAURA INGALLS WILDER. Thomas Nelson Publishers 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newly discovered articles – along with interviews and recollections of her daughter, friends, and neighbors – adds depth and breadth to the adult life of this beloved author. Photos, illustrations. 274 pp. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. GEORGE WASHINGTON & THE FOUNDING OF A NATION. Dutton 2001, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 7-12. 0525464816. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. VIRGINIA’S GENERAL, Robert E. Lee and the Civil War. Atheneum 1994, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 10. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 8-12. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Muhlbach, L. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, An Historical Novel. D. Appleton 1867, 1899. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Rev. W. L. Gage. Five full-page illustrations. Ambleside 9 Biography. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Nicolay, John G. A SHORT LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Condensed from Nicolay & Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: a History. The Century Co. 1902, 1906. Hardcover. 555 pp. plus extensive index. Ambleside 10 Biography. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Peare, Catherine O. WASHINGTON IRVING, HIS LIFE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Margaret Ayer. In the author’s easy-to-read style, she captures the bubbling enthusiasm of the young Washington Irving, traces his development as a writer, and tells of a colorful career. Ages 9-12. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Rourke, Constance. DAVY CROCKETT. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1934, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1935. Ill. Walter Seaton. From the New York Times: “Whether or not young readers are consciously aware of the vividness of her descriptions and the beauty of her prose, the book cannot help but increase their literary appreciation.” Keeps the adventurous flavor of his character but shows him to be a great man. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 6-12. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket exceptionally nice. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by Nina Brown Baker. Grosset & Dunlap 1952. Hardcover. Truthquest Renaissance & Reformation grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by Margaret Leighton. Grosset & Dunlap 1952. Hardcover. Truthquest grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF GENERAL CUSTER, by Margaret Leighton. Grosset & Dunlap 1954. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF KIT CARSON, by Edmund Collier. Grosset & Dunap 1953. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF MARTHA WASHINGTON, by Jeannette Covert Nolan. Grosset & Dunlap 1954. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF ROBERT E. LEE, by Iris Vinton. Grosset & Dunlap 1952. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-9. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wheeler, Opal & Deucher, Sybil. FRANZ SCHUBERT AND HIS MERRY FRIENDS. E. P. Dutton 1939, 1955. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Mary Greenwalt. NOT ex-lib. Previous owner’s name. Book Very Good; dust jacket has 1” x 1 ½” piece missing in front. $18.photo of the actual item
 
White, T. H. AMERICA AT LAST, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF T. H. WHITE. G. P. Putnam’s 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author of The Once and Future King. 250 pp. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Yates, Elizabeth. AMOS FORTUNE, FREE MAN. E. P. Dutton1950. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 4. SCM. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good with chip in dust jacket. $7.photo of the actual item
 
CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHIES
Barrett, David. C. S. LEWIS AND HIS WORLD. United Kingdom: Marshall Pickering/Wm. B. Eerdmans 1987. Hardcover. Ill. with photos. 0802836399. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Carver, Saxon Rowe. WILLIAM COLGATE, YEOMAN OF KENT. Broadman Press 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Kurt Wiese. William Colgate, founder of the Colgate Industries, was 12 years old when his father was forced to flee England or be hanged for treason against the king for his outspoken sympathy for the American colonists. In realizing what it would mean to his family and his Lord to become mayor of New York, he declined the offer to run for that office. Ex-church library. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Fletcher, Jesse C. BILL WALLACE OF CHINA. Broadman Press 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bill Wallace served as a medical missionary during the most turbulent years of the ancient kingdom’s history. It was in the late 1930’s when China was being harassed by Japanese invaders that Wallace became a legend among the people he served and became a martyr for Christ in a Communist prison cell. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. Dust jacket in new protective cover. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Loizeaux, P. J. THE TRUE STORY OF THE CONVICT DANIEL MANN And Other Stories. John Ritchie Ltd., no date, ca. 1900. Hardcover. Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Ludwig, Charles. NANCY HANKS: MOTHER OF LINCOLN. Valor Series. Baker Book House 1965. Hardcover. Tells the story of Nancy Hanks’ faith and its effect on her son. 88 pp. Ex-church with card pocket and stamp. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Richardson, Don. ETERNITY IN THEIR HEARTS, The Untold Story of Christianity Among Folk Religions of Ancient People.. Regal Books SOFTCOVER 1985. Sonlight 400. 0830709258. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Dr. & Mrs. Howard. BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HUDSON TAYLOR. China Inland Mission 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with 2 small tears in dust jacket at spine edges; previous owner’s inscription. $8.photo of the actual item
 
ten Boom, Corrie. FATHER TEN BOOM, GOD’S MAN. Fleming H. Revell. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with photos. Ex-church library. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
YOUNG READERS’ AMERICAN HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
Ammon Richard. VALLEY FORGE. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2006. Stunning full-page color ill. by Bill Farnsworth. 32 pp. Picture-book format. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-6. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
   
Morris, Richard B. THE INDIAN WARS, American History Topic Books. First published in 1959 as The First Book of the Indian Wars. Lerner Publications 1985. Hardcover. Ill. Leonard Everett Fisher. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-7. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Wise, William. LEADERS, LAWS, AND CITIZENS, The Story of Democracy and Government. Parents’ Magazine Press 1973. Hardcover. Ill. Mila Lazarevich. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
YOUNG READERS’ WORLD HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
Aliki. A MEDIEVAL FEAST. Thomas Y. Crowelll 1983, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Aliki. SCM History 1-3. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 1-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, no dust jacket. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Cohen, Daniel. ANCIENT EGYPT. Doubleday 1990, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Gary A. Lippincott. Dramatic, vivid illustrations; brief text. 0385245866. Folio, more than 12”. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, wear to one corner. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Nicholson, Robert and Watts, Claire. THE VIKINGS, Facts, Stories, Activities. Scholastic/Two-Can Publishing SOFTCOVER 1991. 0590738801. Brand-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
AMERICAN HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Freedman, Russell. AN INDIAN WINTER. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1992, 1994. Paintings and drawings by Karl Bodmer. 88 pp., profusely illustrated. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
   
Ingraham, Leonard. AN ALBUM OF COLONIAL AMERICA. Franklin Watts 1969. Hardcover. Ill. with maps and period prints. 23 chapters, i.e. “Founders;” “Education;” “Trade and Transportation;” “Farming;” “Slavery, “ etc. 88 pp., illustrations every page. Ex-lib. Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH, by May McNeer. Random House/Spencer Press 1950. Green cloth binding. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmarks Series. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, by Robert Tallant. Random House 1952. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-9. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. OUR INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Random House 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. AMERICA AND VIETNAM, The Elephant and the Tiger. Viking 1992, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs. Riveting and excellent exploration of the Vietnam War. 0670840637. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, no library marks on dust jacket. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. UPROOTED, The Japanese Experience During World War II. Albert Knopf 2016, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with numerous photos. A Junior Library Guild Selection. For teens. 209 pp. plus notes and index. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
WORLD HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Berton, Pierre. THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813. McClelland & Stewart 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 9. NOT Ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, Volume Three, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Dodd, Mead 1957. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 9. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; stain on back of dust jacket. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES, Volume Four, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Dodd, Mead 1958, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 10. Book Very Good; dust jacket has piece missing at spine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Guerber, H. A. THE STORY OF THE ROMANS. Nothing New Press SOFTCOVER 2002, originally published 1896. Ambleside 6. Very Good. $16.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark (World). GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MONGOL HORDE, by Harold Lamb. Random House 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark (World). THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK, by William Shirer. Random House 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine; dust jacket Good in new protective cover. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marshall, H. E. OUR ISLAND STORY, A History of Britain for Boys and Girls. Galore Park 1905, 2005. Hardcover. Thirty color illustrations by A. S. Forrest. Ambleside 1-5. Book Like-New. $18.photo of the actual item
 
Mercer, Charles. ALEXANDER THE GREAT. A Horizon Caravel Book. American Heritage 1962. Hardcover. Ill. with photos and period prints. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Portraits of Greatness. THE LIFE &TIMES OF NAPOLEON, ed. by Dr. Enzo Orlandi. Curtis Books 1967. Beautiful color ill. of period prints and maps. 75 pp. Folio. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Roth, Susan L. MARCO POLO, HIS NOTEBOOK. Doubleday 1991, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story based on Marco Polo’s book The Travels of Marco Polo. Unpaged. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 3-12. 038526495x. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
MINNESOTA BOOKS
Gilbert, Jim. THROUGH MINNESOTA’S SEASONS WITH JIM GILBERT. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 1987, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Text and color photographs by Gilbert. Drawings by Laverne Dunsmore. 210 pp. with index. Extraordinarily clean and nice. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Jaques, Florence. CANOE COUNTRY. Minnesota Historical Society Press SOFTCOVER 1938, 1989. Ill. Francis Lee Jaques. In 1927, for their honeymoon, the Jaques took a 3-week canoe trip through the Minnesota-Ontario border lakes and Florence kept a jounal of the voyage while Francis added skillful drawings of the forests, lakes, and wildlife. Magic words and distinctive pictures! NOT ex-lib. Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
ART / MUSIC FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
Barbauld, A. L. HYMNS IN PROSE FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN. India: S N Books, no date. Originally published in 1781. Hardcover. CM Language Arts. Brand-new. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Downing, Julie. MOZART TONIGHT. Bradbury Press 1991, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by Downing. Glowing illustrations by the author. Young readers are treated to an engrossing portrait of the composer’s life starting with his early years. 0027328813. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. RENOIR, THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1977, 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Book #4. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Text by Keith Roberts. Five-page biography and 14 pages of his paintings with two double-page, fold-out paintings. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. MICHELANGELO. THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Book 5. Text by E. H. Ramsden. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Five-page biography and 14 pages of his paintings with two double-page, fold-out paintings. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. PICASSO. THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Book 6. Text by Sir Roland Penrose. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Five-page biography and 15 pages of his paintings. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. VELAZQUEZ. THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Book 23. Text by Jose Lopez-Rey. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Five-page biography and 15 pages of his paintings with two double-page, fold-out paintings. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. LULLABIES, An Illustrated Songbook. Harcourt Brace/Gulliver Books 1997, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Children’s lullabies are paired with museum artwork to make a delightfully enhanced poetry/art study. 96 pp. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Morgan, Robert J. THEN SINGS MY SOUL, BOOK 2. 150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn Stories. Nelson Reference SOFTCOVER 2004, first edition. Each song with music, lyrics and story of the origin of the hymn. 0785251685. Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Raboff, Ernest. MICHELANGELO. Art for Children. Harper & Row 1988. SOFTCOVER. 0064460746. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Westminster Press. WHEN THE LITTLE CHILD WANTS TO SING. Westminster Press 1935, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. For use with four- and five-year-olds in home, school, and church school. 99 pp. Previous owner’s name. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BOOKS / COOKBOOKS / HOBBIES / CRAFTS
Beckham, Victoria. VICTORIA BECKHAM COLORING BOOK. Victoria Beckham Collection made especially for Target. 18 pages with heavy backing page for coloring. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Eager, Fred. THE ITALIC WAY TO BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITING, Cursive & Calligraphic. Collier/Macmillan 1967, 1979. SOFTCOVER. A teach-yourself guide to Italic handwriting. 109 pp. Like-New, no writing. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Foster, Walter T. ANIMALS ARE FOR FUN. Walter Foster Art Books 1987. By Ed Nofziger. Folio, larger than 12”. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! A Four-Year Record Book for Birthday Boys and Girls, by Dian G Smith. Charles Scribner’s 1988. SOFTCOVER. Every page of this delightful book invites children to record four years of birthday celebrations, along with room to jot down annually the things they like the most, how much they have grown, and note the year’s important events. Some of the full-color illustrations are from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Book is Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
LIVING SCIENCE / NATURE, OTHER NON-FICTION
Anderson, Lena, illustrator. NICKY THE NATURE DETECTIVE, by Ulf Svedberg. R & S Books 1991, originally published in Sweden in 1983. Translated by Ingrid Selberg. Nickey observes her surroundings all year long and can answer questions about why birds sing and how spiders spin webs, in a delightfully illustrated, informative guide for the beginning naturalist. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $7.photo of the actual item
  
Anholt, Catherine and Laurence. SUN, SNOW, STARS SKY. Viking 1995. Hardcover. Wonderful living science book about the seasons with captivating illustrations. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
  
Barker, Cicely Mary. FLOWER FAIRIES GARDENER’S YEAR. Frederick Warne 2000, first edition. Spiral-bound hardcover. Beautiful Barker flower fairies illustrations with copyrights 1923-1985. Provides guidance on various aspects of hortriculture and allows gardeners to note how their plants are performing, log the weather, keep propagation records, and more, with monthly reminders for jobs to be done. An exquisite book! Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bastin, Marjolein with Marin, Tovah. VIEW FROM A SKETCHBOOK, Nature Through the Eyes of Marjolein Bastin. Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2003, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. SCM. 1584793538. Fine. $20.photo of the actual item
    
Berenstain, Stan & Jan.  THE BERENSTAIN BEARS’ NATURE GUIDE.  Random House 1975, 1984. SOFTCOVER. Everything small bears and kids need to know about the wonderful world of nature.  NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Berger, Melvin. GERMS MAKE ME SICK. Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science. HarperTrophy 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Borland, Hal. HOMELAND, A REPORT FROM THE COUNTRY. J. B. Lippincott 1964, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Borland writes of the land he loves, the green-growing things that spring from it, and the creatures that people it. Ambleside 11 Nature Study. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Branley, Franklyn. MICKEY’S MAGNET. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1956. Ill. Crockett Johnson. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bulla, Clyde Robert. A TREE IS A PLANT. Let’s-Read-and-Fine-Out Science. Thomas Y. Crowell 1960. Hardcover. Ill. Lois Lignell. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Buscaglia, Leo, Ph.D. THE FALL OF FREDDIE THE LEAF, A Story of Life for All Ages. Charles B. Slack 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Davies, Valerie. THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER BOOK. School Specialty Publishing 2006, first edition. Ill. Simon Mendez. Spiral-bound hardcover. Help the spider weave its web; feel a furry spider. Each page invites you to explore spiders close-up. Wonderful for small children. 0769644295. Brand-New. $8.50.photo of the actual item
   
Dillard, Annie. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. Harper’s Magazine Press 1974, stated first U.S. edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. The author’s quote, “In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery , newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.” NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Evans, Pauline Rush, editor.  BEST BOOK OF NATURE STORIES. Doubleday & Co. 1957. Pictorial hardcover. 7-11 page stories, i.e. “The Ants” by Edwin Way Teale; “The Cute Coyote,” Ernest Thompson Seton; “Vulpes, the Red Fox,” Jean George; “The Hunting Wasp,” J. Henri Fabre. 26 captivating stories. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Fisher, Aileen. THE STORY GOES ON. Roaring Brook Press 2005 first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. In this exquisitely and simply illustrated picture book, a favorite poet for young people describes the ongoing cycle of life. A seed sprouts and is quickly devoured by a bug. A bright green frog appears and makes a meal of the bug. And the story goes on...from bug to snake to hawk to hunter...until a seed begins to sprout. Catchy, poetic narrative captures the listener while subtly imparting important nature facts. Living Science. 1596430370. Brand-New. $8.50.photo of the actual item
    
Halliburton, Richard. RICHARD HALLIBURTON’S COMPLETE BOOK OF MARVELS. Bobbs-Merrilll 1937, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 5. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $40.photo of the actual item
  
Hedlund, Stephanie. WINTER. Magic Wagon 2014. Hardcover. Ill. Stephanie Bauer. Why? When? What do the plants do? For very young children the simple text and child-friendly illustrations tell what makes winter special, when it is, and how it changes the world around them. Plus, gives fun ideas of things to do with family and friends. 1616419954. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Holden, Edith. COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY. Michael Joseph/Webb & Bower 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket. A facsimile reproduction of a naturalist’s diary for the year 1906. Holden recorded in words (all carefully written in her own handwriting) and paintings the flora and fauna of the British countryside through the changing seasons. Exquisite book! Mint except for previous owner’s name and gift inscription. $16.photo of the actual item
    
Karas, G. Brian. AS AN OAK TREE GROWS. Nancy Paulsen Books 2014. SOFTCOVER. Follows the history of an oak tree for 200 years, first as an acorn planted by a young boy and finally toppled in a violent storm.  0399176039. Brand-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Macaulay, David. MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES. Houghton Mifflin 1979. SOFTCOVER. It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Truthquest Beginnings grades 3-12. 0395284252. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Macaulay, David. MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES. Houghton Mifflin/Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1979, 1993. SOFTCOVER. It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Truthquest Beginnings grades 3-12. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Moore, Lilian. LITTLE RACCOON, Three stories in one volume: The Thing in the Pool (1963); The Outside World (1965); No Trouble at All (1972). Henry Holt 2002, first Henry Holt edition. Hardcover. Ill. Doug Cushman. Living Science. 0805065431. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, John D. NOAH’S ARK AND THE ARARAT ADVENTURE. Master Books 1999. Hardcover. Many questions answered about Noah’s ark and the Great Flood. 0890511667. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Parker, Gary E. DRY BONES AND OTHER FOSSILS. CLP Publishers 1979, 1983. SOFTCOVER. Ill. Jonathan Chong. Sonlight Science F. Living Science. Truthquest Beginnings grades 3-9. SCM. 0890510563. Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Peterson, Roger Tory. A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS. Houghton Mifflin 1934, 1947. Hardcover. Giving field marks of all species found east of the Rockies. Sponsored by National Audubon Society. Full-page illustrations by Peterson in color and b/w. 290 pp. Ambleside. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Polseno, Jo. THIS HAWK BELONGS TO ME. David McKay 1976, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Young Dino de Angelo is a chronic truant who lives near Long Island Sound and learns things by the pond or in the marshes that were never taught in school. He is thrilled to find an orphaned kestrel hawk and bring it back to health and strength and then to let it return to the wild. Polseno writes with great humor about a spirited, sensitive and independent young man while presenting to the reader a wealth of nature information. Living Science. 0679203249. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
     
Schoenherr, John. REBEL. Philomel 1995, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Each year mother and father goose return to the same pond and each year their goslings peck their way out of their eggs. But this year one of the newly hatched gosling turns out to be a curious and fearless rebel. Living Science. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Sidman, Joyce. SONG OF THE WATER BOATMAN & Other Pond Poems. Houghton Mifflin 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Beckie Prange. Caldecott Honor Book 2004. A unique blend of whimsy, science, catchy poetry and hand-colored woodcuts introduces children to the world of the quiet, dramatic life of the pond. Living Science. Brand-New, with new laid-in bookplate. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Sidman, Joyce. WINTER BEES & OTHER POEMS OF THE COLD. Houghton Mifflin 2014, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Rick Allen. Junior Literary Guild selection. “Dusk fell and the cold came creeping, came prickling into our hearts.” Beautiful poetry and nature facts along with breathtaking artwork to warm your hearts by a winter fire. Living Science. 0547906501. Brand-New. $7.photo of the actual item
     
Simon, Seymour. STRANGE CREATURES. Four Winds Press 1981, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pamela Carroll. Here you will find animals that look strange, animals that behave in odd ways, animals that have strange abilities. Full-page illustration opposite text each page. Living Science. 0590077457. Ex-lib. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Stuart, Marjorie. BIRDS AROUND US. A Whitman Learn About Book. Whitman Publishing 1961. Hardcover. Ill. Waclav Perkowski. 59 pages packed with information and color ill. Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Tiner, John Hudson. EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, From the Ancient Physicians of Pharaoh to Genetic Engineering. Master Books 2009. SOFTCOVER. SCM. Heart of Dakota. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. RAIN DROP SPLASH. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1946, 1995. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Caldecott Honor Book 1947. Living science that introduces young children to the natural progression of rainfall from brook to lake to river to the sea. Sure to inform and fascinate kids! Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. RAIN DROP SPLASH. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1946, 1995. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Caldecott Honor Book 1947. Living science that introduces young children to the natural progression of rainfall from brook to lake to river to the sea. Sure to inform and fascinate kids! Brand-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Troughton, Guy, illustrator. ochrane, Victoria. WHOSE NEST? By Victoria Cochrane. Scholastic/Weldon Owen 2013, first edition. Hardcover. Beautiful illustrations by English wildlife artist Guy Troughton. “This snuggly bed blankets my babies, while I munch on sweet, crisp clovers. Who am I?” And the flaps of the opposite page open to reveal the answer. Eight animals and their nests featured. 1608872041. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Udry, Janice May. THE MOON JUMPERS. Harper & Row 1959. Hardcover. Ill. Maurice Sendak. A warm night living science experience with a “balloon of a moon.” CM. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Unstead, Sue. THE BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY BOOK. School Specialty Publishing 2005. Ill. Gill Tomblin. Spiral-bound hardcover. Wonderful, colorful, interactive book that invites you to lift the flaps to see how their wings work, turn the wheel to follow the transformation from egg to adult, touch and feel the caterpillars. Wonderful for small children. 0769641512. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
     
Wilkin, Eloise, illustrator. BIRDS, A Child’s First Book About Our Most Familiar Birds, by Jane Werner Watson. Merrigold Press 1958, first edition. Pictorial hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. DSC_0663,DSC_0664,DSC_0666,DSC_0667_1 $12.photo of the actual item
 
Wynnejones, Pat. THE STORY OF ROBIN REDBREAST. Hedgerow Tales. Retold by Pat Wynnejones from Mrs. Gatty’s Parables of Nature. Great Britain: Lion Publishing 1984, 1987. Hardcover. Living Science. Good, with slight rippling to first pages. NOT ex-lib. $4.50. photo of the actual item
 
Wynnejones, Pat. THE STORY OF JEREMY CRICKET. Hedgerow Tales. Retold by Pat Wynnejones from Mrs. Gatty’s Parables of Nature. Great Britain: Lion Publishing 1984, 1987. Hardcover. Living Science. Fine. NOT ex-lib. $5.photo of the actual item
 
BIBLES, BIBLE STORIES / SCRIPTURE-BASED STORIES / DEVOTIONALS
Henley, Karyn. THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE, Timeless Children’s Stories. Gold ‘N’ Honey 1989. Hardcover. Ill. Dennas Davis. Sonlight 2 Readers. Heart of Dakota. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Hurlbut, Dr. Jesse Lyman. HURLBUT’S STORY OF THE BIBLE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1932, 1957. New & Expanded Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 48 full-color paintings by Ralph Pallen Coleman; 160 2-color drawings by Steele Savage. 655 pages plus Bible Lessons; History of the Books of the Bible; 18 maps. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good with date written on front free endpaper; dust jacket has short tears, chips. $8.50.photo of the actual item
     
Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. THE PINEAPPLE STORY. Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts 1978. Hardcover. A story from Dutch New Guinea that teaches the principle of yielding personal rights. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. THE EAGLE STORY, How to Conquer Habits. Institute In Basic Youth Conflicts 1982, 1984. Hardcover. Near-fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Jahsmann, Allan Hart & Simon, Martin P. LITTLE VISITS WITH GOD, Devotions for Families with Grade School Children. Concordia Publishing 1957. Hardcover. Ill. Frances Hook. Short, 2-page devotions with memory verses. Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Loveland, Seymour. THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY BOOK, OLD TESTAMENT. Rand McNally 1923, 1944. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Milo Winter, many full-page. Ill. endpapers. 126 pp. Blue cloth with paste-down ill. cover. G. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Maxwell, Arthur. THE STORY BOOK, Character Building Stories for Children. Review & Herald 1964, 1980. SOFTCOVER. 21 4 to 7-page stories about “Courage;” “Greediness;” “Sharing;” “Sclf-Sacrifice;” etc. 0828005397. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Mears, Henrietta. WHAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT. Regal Books SOFTCOVER 1967, 1972. An easy-to-understand survey of the Bible. 674 pp. Truthquest Beginnings grades 2-6. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Mears, Henrietta. WHAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT. Regal Books 1953, 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. An easy-to-understand survey of the Bible, making the study of God’s word useful, interesting and challenging. 648 pp. Truthquest Beginnings grades 2-6. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Schoolland, Marian. MARIAN’S FAVORITE BIBLE STORIES. Wm. B. Eerdmans 1948, 1960. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Dirk Gringhuis. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Kenneth N. THE LIVING BIBLE STORY BOOK. Tyndale House 1979, 1980. Hardcover. color illustrations by Richard and Frances Hook. 192 pp. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Kenneth N. GIANT STEPS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments. Tyndalae House 1985, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Kathryn E. Shoemaker. 29 short devotionals each with double-page color illustration, question, prayer and Bible verse. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
EASY READERS – FICTION
Cordts, Anna. TOMMY O’TOOLE AT THE FAIR. Benefic Press 1957. Hardcover. Second-third grade level. NOT ex-lib. Good, cover soil. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Corson, Hazel. PETER, THE ROCKET SITTER. Benefic Press 1964. First grade level. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Elkin, Benjamin. THE KING’S WISH And Other Stories. Random House Beginner Books 1960, BCE. Hardcover. Ill. Leonard Shortall. NOT ex-lib. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Erickson, Phoebe. JUST FOLLOW ME. A Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Level 1. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. LITTLE BLACK GOES TO THE CIRCUS! Walter Farley Family Trust, originally published 1963. Ill. James Schucker. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Holland, Marion. A BIG BALL OF STRING. Random House Beginner Books 1958, 1993. SOFTCOVER. Ill. by Roy McKie. 0394800052. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $10.photo of the actual item
 
McCall, Edith. BUTTERNUT BILL AND THE TRAIN. Benefic Press 1969,, 1975. Hardcover. Ill. Darrell Wiskur. Ex-school. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR. Harper & Brothers 1957, very early edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper over boards with black cloth binding. Ill. Maurice Sendak. CM Alveary. Ambleside 0. Sonlight Core A. Carol Seid list. NOT ex-library; NOT book club. Good, wear to corners; interior very good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Murphey, Sara. THE ANIMAL HAT SHOP. A Follett Beginning-To-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1964. Level 1. Hardcover. Very Good. $2.50. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. SCM. Ambleside 9. NOT exlib. Like-New. p=i,DSC_4023 $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Sydney. MR. BARNEY’S BEARD. A Follett Beginning-To-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1961. Hardcover. Level 1. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Woods, Ruth. LITTLE QUACK. Follett Publishing 1961. Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Hardcover. Ill. Mel Pekarsky. Ex-school. Good, some cover soil. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHRISTIAN, INSPIRATIONAL FICTION FOR CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULTS
Anderson, Ella. JO-JO. Pickering & Inglis 1959, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Three young girls are thrilled to be invited to spend their vacation at the Little Creek Ranch in California, home to the Palomino horse Jo-Jo. Their lives are endangered when horse thieves enter the picture. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Arnold, Francena H. THE ROAD WINDS ON. Moody Press SOFTCOVER 1955, 1970. Fair. $1.50.photo of the actual item
 
Edwards, Gene. A TALE OF THREE KINGS, A Study in Brokenness. Christian Books SOFTCOVER 1980. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Elliot, Elisabeth. NO GRAVEN IMAGE, A novel of a young American missionary in the high Andes that relates how her faith was tested by circumstances and tragedy. Harper & Row 1966, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Harris, Beth Coombe. THE LITTLE GREEN FROG. School of Tomorrow 1971, 1993. Hardcover. Go with Biddy and see how her adventures with the little green frog help her share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Henderson, Lois T. ABIGAIL, A Novel. Guideposts 1980. Hardcover. Biblical fiction. Like-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hurnard, Hannah. HINDS’ FEET ON HIGH PLACES. Barbour Publishing 1977, later printing. The Christian Library Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Decorative binding, gilt with burgundy leatherette. Complete and unabridged. 1557486190. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Hutchens, Paul. HAUNTED HOUSE AT SUGAR CREEK. Scripture Press 1949. Hardcover. Good, previous owner’s name; some cover wear. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Johnson, Lissa Halls. BRIO GIRLS, Lot of 5 books, #1-5. Focus on the Family/Bethany House SOFTCOVER 2001-2002. Includes Stuck in the Sky; Fast Forward to Normal; Opportunity Knocks Twice; Double Exposure; Good-By to All That. All 5 books like-new. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Lamplighter Publishing. BOYS OF GRIT WHO NEVER GAVE UP, 1761-1931, by Elsie E. Egermeier. Lamplighter Publishing 2014, first published 1931. Hardcover with decorative binding. 1584741058. Good. One page has three lines underlined. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Lecomte, Eva. PAULA THE WALDENSIAN. Loizeaux Brothers 1942, 1948. Hardcover. A little orphaned girl from the Waldensian Valley in Italy comes to live with her rather worldly, well-to-do cousins in France, bringing with her a living, loving faith that eventually wins the family and neighbors. Sweet and tender, old-fashioned story with a clear gospel message. NOT ex-lib. Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. Chronicles of Narnia Book 2. Harper Trophy 1950, 2000. Full-color Collector’s Edition. Like-New $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. THE SILVER CHAIR. Chroniclies of Narnia Book 6. HarperCollins 1953, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pauline Baynes. Ambleside 4. SCM. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. THE LAST BATTLE. Chroniclies of Narnia Book 7. HarperCollins 1956, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pauline Baynes. Ambleside 4. SCM. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Book Like-New; dust jacket has edge wear, small tears. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, Gilbert. THE HOLY WARRIOR. House of Winslow #6. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1989. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, Gilbert. THE UNION BELLE. The House of Winslow #11. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1992. . Ex-lib. Near-Fine. $2.photo of the actual item
 
Oke, Janette. LOVE COMES SOFTLY. Love Comes Softly series #1. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1979. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Reid, J. Calvin. BIRD LIFE IN WINGTON, Practical Parables for Young People. Wm. B. Eerdmans 1948, 1977. SOFTCOVER. Ill. Reynold Weidenaar. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
School of Tomorrow. THE MARTYR OF THE CATACOMBS, Author Unknown. School of Tomorrow 1995. Publication date unknown, but the book was salvaged from shipwreck in 1876 and reprinted. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 5-10. Pictorial hardcover. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Travis, Lucille. TIRZAH. Herald Press SOFTCOVER 1991. Signed by author. Fleeing with Moses from captivity in Egypt, 12-year-old Tirzah learns a song of hope as she tries to survive the journey. Heart of Dakota. 0836135466. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
  
Watson, Sydney. IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. Fleming H. Revell 1921, 1933. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dramatic, imaginative, true-to-scripture story of what will transpire on earth at the coming of the Lord. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Poor. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Woodrum, Lon. ROAD TO THE RIVER. Zondervan 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fictionalized story of Naaman and his little Hebrew maid. Unforgettable story of faith and love. 157 pp. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s nameplate. $5.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S/TEENS’ HISTORICAL FICTION
Bohner, Charles. BOLD JOURNEY, West With Lewis and Clark. Houghton Mifflin 1985, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hugh McNeal is listed as the youngest of the explorers with Lewis and Clark. This is the fictionalized story in his words. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 4-12. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Bourne, Miriam Anne. NABBY ADAMS’ DIARY. Coward, McCann 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Stephen Gammell. Nabby’s diary and letters are the basis of this fictionalized account of the life of the daughter of President John and Abigail Adams. CM Alveary. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 4-10. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $9.photo of the actual item
 
Bourne, Miriam Anne. UNCLE GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HARRIOT’S GUITAR. Coward-McCann 1983, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Elise Primavera. Touching story, based on actual Washington family letters, of how Harriot came to have her guitar and even found the opportunity to please her famous uncle with her music. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 2-7. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS CAT GRIMALKIN. Bobbs-Merrill 1947, later printing. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-10. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. Previous owner’s name. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS CAT GRIMALKIN. Bobbs-Merrill 1947. Hardcover. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-10. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Innocenti, Roberto. ROSE BLANCHE. Creative Education 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Rose is a little child when World War II comes to Germany. This is her first observation of all the puzzling and tragic things that are happening. Picture-book format, but not appropriate for young children. 087191994x. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $5.photo of the actual item
      
Lovelace, Maud Hart. EARLY CANDLELIGHT, Life at Old Fort Snelling, a Novel. Minnesota Historical Society Press SOFTCOVER 1929, 1992. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Meader, Stephen. RIVER OF THE WOLVES. Harcourt, Brace & World 1948. Hardcover. Ill. Edward Shenton. As iin all of his living history novels, Meader has re-created a period of history, giving, breadth, reality, and excitement to the time of the French and Indian wars. Great book for all boys who like wilderness adventure and thrilling action. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 4-12. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $16.photo of the actual item
  
Noble, Trinka Hakes. THE PENNSYLVANIA READER. Sleeping Bear Press 2007. Hardcover. Ill. K. L. Darnell. Modeled after traditional primers with stories, riddles, and poems about Pennsylvania's history, famous people and state symbols. 89 pp. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Speare, Elizabeth George. THE BRONZE BOW. Houghton Mifflin 1961, 1989. Hardcover with dust jacket. This edition rare in this condition! Newbery Medal 1962. Ambleside 6. SCM. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 3-12. Like-New with two spots on spine edge. $12.photo of the actual item
  
Speare, Elizabeth George. THE BRONZE BOW. Houghton Mifflin 1961. Vintage copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1962. Ambleside 6. SCM. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 3-12. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, small edge tears in dust jacket; previous owner’s name. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Speare, Elizabeth George. WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND. Houghton Mifflin 1958. Vintage copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1959. CM Alveary. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 6-12. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with some edge wear to clean dust jacket. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Stevens, Carla. TROUBLE FOR LUCY. Clarion Books 1979. Hardcover. Ill. Ronald Himler. Story based on the actual journals of pioneers’ journey to Oregon in 1843. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 2-5. Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Mildred D. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY. Phylis Fogelman Books 1976, 2001. 25th Anniversary Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sonlight D, E. Newbery Medal 1977. Ambleside 6. SCM. 0803726473. Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Mildred D. LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN. Dial Books 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 0803747489. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wallace, Lew. THE ILLUSTRATED BEN-HUR, Two Volumes in One. Bonanza Books 1978, originally published by Harper & Bros. in 1891. Hardcover with dust jacket. More than 850 illustrations. Illlustrated with drawings by William Marton Johnson and photographs. Ambleside 6. 0517259486. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has edge tears. $8.photo of the actual item
 
We Were There Series. WE WERE THERE AT THE BATTLE FOR BATAAN, by Benjamin Appel. Grosset & Dunlap 1957. Hardcover. World War II. Not ex-lib. Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S, TEENS’ FICTION / LITERATURE
Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE WOMEN,, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Everyman’s Library 1994. Part I first published 1868; Part II first published 1869. First included in Everyman’s Library in 1908. Hardcover. Twelve color plates by M. E. Gray. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, attractive binding. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE MEN. Whitman Publishing 1965. Pictorial hardcover. Unabridged. Ill. in color by David K. Stone. Ambleside 6. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. JACK AND JILL. Little, Brown 1880, 1928. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is the story of a boy and girl who smashed up when sledding and of the fun they had during their recovery. Ambleside 6. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. JO’S BOYS. Sequel to Little Men. Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library. Complete and unabridged. Ill. in color and b/w by Louis Jambor. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. THE STORY OF A BAD BOY. Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a semi-autobiographical novel fictionalizing Bailey’s experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy". Packed with comical, typical-boy fun and adventure. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket poor but decent in new protective cover. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Andersen, Hans Christian. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES. Henry Holt 1981. Hardcover. 21 color plates by Michael Hague. Ambleside 2. CM Alveary. “The Snow Queen,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” six more. 162 pp. Ambleside 2. Fine, with previous owner’s name. 080507239x. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Armstrong, William. SOUNDER. Harper & Row 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. James Barkley. Newbery Medal 1970. Sonlight 100. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good; first or very early printing. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Austen, Jane. NORTHANGER ABBEY. Book-of-the-Month Club 1996, first published 1817. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Hugh Thomson. Ambleside 8, 9. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Austen, Jane. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Book-of-the-Month Club 1996, first published 1811. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Hugh Thomson. SCM. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin and Lewis, Clara M. FAVORITE STORIES FOR THE CHILDREN’S HOUR. Platt & Munk 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated. 381 pp. with index. 1-8 page-stories. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good with a few chips. $8.50.photo of the actual item
     
Baker, Laura Nelson. THE DAHLBE FAMILY HORSE. The Dial Press 1964, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Paul E. Kennedy. Sarah realizes it is up to her to figure out a way to keep “Our Birdie,” the family’s dearly-loved buggy horse, when Father determines she is getting too old to earn her keep and must be sold. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
  
Bonner, Mary Graham. 365 BEDTIME STORIES. Derrydale Books 1987, reproduction of a book published 1924. 16 very Victorian color plates by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. A short and sweet story for each night of the year. 302 pp. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Brady, Lillian. THE SAGA OF A WHITETAIL. Amber Crest Books 1981, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Jerome Connolly. A movingly beautiful Minnesota story of a white-tailed deer. Living Science. 0865330042. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Brink, Carol Ryrie. CADDIE WOODLAWN. Macmillan 1935, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Trina Schart Hyman. Newbery Medal 1936. Impulsive, independent and mischievous, the red-haired tomboy of an 1860’s Wisconsin farm has entertained children for decades, displaying warmth and kindness of heart. Ambleside 3. Sonlight. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket exceptionally nice. $9.photo of the actual item
 
Burgess, Thornton. THE ADVENTURES OF UNC’ BILLY POSSUM. Grosset & Dunlap 1914, 1942. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Harrison Cady. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has pieces missing, decent in new protective cover. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Burgess, Thornton. THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOX, The Bedtime Stories. Grossset & Dunlap 1913, 1941. Pictorial hardcover. Pink cloth over boards. Ill. Harrison Cady. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Burgess, Thornton W. THE ADVENTURES OF JERRY MUSKRAT. Grosset & Dunlap 1914, 1942. Hardcover. Ill. Harrison Cady. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Good, cover wear. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Burgess, Thornton. THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY SKUNK, The Bedtime Stories. Grossset & Dunlap 1918, 1946. Pictorial hardcover. Pink cloth over boards. Ill. Harrison Cady. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, faint smudge on cover. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Burgess, Thornton. OLD MOTHER WEST WIND. Grosset & Dunlap 1910. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. George Kerr. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A LITTLE PRINCESS. David R. Godine 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Richley detailed color illustrations and b/w drawings by Graham Rust. CM Alveary. Ambleside 4. SCM. 0879237848. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket have light wear to two corners. $7.50.photo of the actual item
  
Caudill, Rebecca. DID YOU CARRY THE FLAG TODAY, CHARLEY? Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966. Hardcover. Ill. Nancy Grossman. Ex-lib. Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, by Mark Twain. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight color plates by Troy Howell. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 5. CM alveary. SCM. Sonlight H. S. literature. Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Sewell. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight color plates by Lucy Kempo-Welch. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 4. SCM. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A CHILD’S BOOK OF COUNTRY STORIES, Written and compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner. Childrens Classics 1992, first published in 1925. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A CHILD’S BOOK OF STORIES, Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales From Around the World. Childrens Classics 1986. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. SCM. Fine, previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. FAIRY TALES FROM MANY LANDS, by Dina Craik. Children’s Classics 1989. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Warwick Goble. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside. Fine, spine a little faded. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE JUNGLE BOOK, by Rudyard Kipling. Childrens Classics 1989. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Maurice and Edward Detmold plus b/w drawings by John Lockwood Kipling and William Henry Drake. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one. generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 3. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, front free endpaper removed. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE SECRET GARDEN, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Childrens Classics 1987. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Troy Howell. Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one. generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. CM Alveary. Ambleside 4. SCM. Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY And Other Classic French Fairy Tales, by Charles Perrault and Madame d’Aulnoy. Children’s Classics 1991. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Edmund Dulac, Gustaf Tenggren and William Heath Robinson. Twelve fairy tales. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, by Charles & Mary Lamb. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight color plates and numerous b/w drawings by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 1-3. SCM. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A VERY LITTLE CHILD’S BOOK OF STORIES, by Ada M. Skinner & Eleanor L. Skinner. Childrens Classics 1990. First published 1923. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Stories by Josephine Scribner Gates, Howard Pyle, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, others. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Collodi, Carlo. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO. Macmillan 1963, 1966. Pictorial hardcover. Six color and 12 b/w illustrations by Naiad Einsel. Ambleside 1. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Colum, Padraic. THE CHILDREN’S HOMER, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy. Macmillan 1918, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Willy Pogany. Truthquest Ancient Greece grades 4-12. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Creswick, Paul. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Reader’s Digest World’s Best Reading 1991, first published 1902. Hardcover. Color ill. by N. C. Wyeth. Heart of Dakota. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
de Angeli, Marguerite. JARED’S ISLAND. Doubleday 1947. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. de Angeli. De Angeli brings alive an important part of American history in this story of a young-boy’s adventures in the half-wild New Jersey of the 1760’s. CM Alveary. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $16.photo of the actual item
 
de Angeli, Marguerite. SKIPPACK SCHOOL, Being the story of Eli Shrawder and of one Christopher Dock, Schoolmaster about the year 1750. Doubleday Doran 1939, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. by de Angeli. Eli and his family have emigrated from Germany to Colonial Pennsylvania where he attends Schoolmaster Christopher Dock’s one-room schoolhouse. Truthquest Age of Revolution grades 2-6. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, some interior fingerprints. $18.photo of the actual item
     
d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar. D’AULAIRE’S BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS. Doubleday 1962, later printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the d’Aulaires. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Dickens, Charles. OLIVER TWIST. William Morrow Books of Wonder 1994, first published 1838 and first illustrated by Don Freeman in 1938. Nine color plates and nearly 50 exquisite line drawings. CM Alveary. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine with small chip in dust jacket. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Dodge, Mary Mapes. HANS BRINKER Or The Silver Skates, A Story of Life in Holland. Grosset & Dunlap 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. Complete and unbridged. Ten full-page color illustrations and b/w drawings by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Enright, Elizabeth. THIMBLE SUMMER. Henry Holt 1938, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1939. Ambleside 4. 1435119525. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Evans, C. S. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Retold by Evans. Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics 1993, first published 1920. Deluxe hardcover; green cloth over boards with gilt decoration and paste-down illustration. Silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 1857159209. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION. Random House 1941. Hardcover with dust jacket. #1 in series. Ill. Keith Ward. 34th printing. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket Good with a 1½” tear. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION RETURNS. Random House 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. #2 in series. Ill. Harold Eldridge. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket Good- with a 1” tear and tape mark. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. SON OF THE BLACK STALLION. Random House 1947. Hardcover with dust jacket. #3 in series. Ill. Milton Menasco. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket Very Good with touch of edge wear. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE ISLAND STALLION. Random House 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket. #4 in Black Stallion series. Ill. Keith Ward. 14th printing. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket has two ¾” tears and some edge wear. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION AND SATAN. Random House 1949. 11th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. #5 in series. Ill. Milton Menasco. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLOOD BAY COLT. Random House 1950. 7th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. #6 in Black Stallion series. Ill. Milton Menasco. NOT ex-lib. Book Mint; dust jacket Very Good with touch of wear at spine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Field, Rachel. HITTY, HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Macmillan 1929, later printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Unique and charming b/w illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Newbery Medal 1930. HItty is a doll of great charm and character and these are her memoirs of travels worldwide with Phoebe Preble, for whom she was made. CM Alveary. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 4-10. Heart of Dakota. 0027348407. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine with previous owner’s name whited out. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Garis, Howard R. UNCLE WIGGILY AND HIS FRIENDS. Platt & Munk 1939, 1989. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by the author. 0448405040. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. The Viking Press 1983, first published 1908. First Am. ed. with these illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Twelve color plates and b/w drawings by John Burningham. Ambleside 2. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Hall, Gordon Langley. PETER JUMPING HORSE AT THE STAMPEDE. Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1961, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Jennifer Kent. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Hardy Boys. THE SECRET OF THE OLD MILL, by Franklin W. Dixon. Applewood Books 1991, facsimile edition of original 1927 edition. #3 in series. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Walter S. Rogers. Identical to original. Book and dust jacket Like-New with some fading to spine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE GOLDEN TOUCH. St. Martin’s Press 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. Taken from the book A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. Beautiful full-page color ill. by Richard Salvucci. King Midas’s fondest wish, to have everything he touches turn to gold, backfires on him. 32 pp. 0312572840. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. BRIGHTY OF THE GRAND CANYON. Rand McNally 1953, 1969. Oversize softcover. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Ambleside 2. NOT ex-lib. Good with scuff mark on cover and previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. KING OF THE WIND, The Story of the Godolphin Arabian. Rand McNally 1948, 1976, later printing. Pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Newbery Medal 1949. Sonlight F. Ambleside 3. SCM. Heart of Dakota. Ex-lib. A little wear to corners. Good+. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Houston, James. AKAVAK, AN ESKIMO JOURNEY. Harcourt, Brace & World 1968, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dramatic illustrations by the author. Akavak and his grandfather are allied in mortal combat against the elemental forces of nature in this breathtaking story. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Hughes, Thomas. TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS. London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1983, first published 1857. Hardcover with dust jacket. 19 line drawings by S. Van Abbe. 0460050036. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s nameplate. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Knight, Eric. LASSIE COME-HOME. Henry Holt/Junior Deluxe Editions 1940, BCE. Ill. Lilian Obligado with color frontispiece and b/w drawings. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has tears but nice in new protective cover. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Knight, Eric. LASSIE COME-HOME. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1940, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reissue of original edition. Ill. Margaret Kirmse. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Lang, Andrew. RED FAIRY BOOK. The Viking Press 1976, 1978. First published 1890. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. in b/w by Faith Jaques. 372 pages with appendix and notes. 33 stories. Ambleside 1. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $14.photo of the actual item
 
Lang, Andrew. FIFTY FAVORITE FAIRY TALES, Chosen From the Color Fairy Books of Andrew Lang by Kathleen Lines. Franklin Watts 1964, first published by Nonesuch Press in London, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Margery gill. 363 pp. Ex-lib. Glue stains on endpapers. Clean and sound. Dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Lee, Harper. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. J. B. Lippincott 1960, BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 11. Book Very Good with a water mark at top of closed pages; dust jacket has four 1” tears but is nice in new protective cover. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman. YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1932, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1933. When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920’s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with its wonders and dangers, fascinates the thirteen-year-old boy, and he sets out to make the best of what it has to offer him. Young Fu’s experiences are timeless. Sonlight F, ages 10-13. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
London, Jack. WHITE FANG. Templar 2008, first edition thus. First published in 1905. Hardcover with dust jacket. 20 beautiful color plates and b/w drawings by Helen Ward. With strikingly descriptive language, London tells this brutally honest tale of a wolf-cub’s initiation into the world and his battle for survival against nature and humankind. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
     
MacDonald, George. DONAL GRANT. Johannesen 1991, reproduced from Kegan, Paul, Trench edition of 1890. Hardcover. 1881084027. Church stamp on title page and top of closed pages; card pocket in back of book. Otherwise appears to be unread. $22.photo of the actual item
 
MacLachlan, Patricia. MORE PERFECT THAN THE MOON. HarperCollins/Scholastic 2005. Hardcover. This is the fourth book in the Sarah, Plain and Tall series. Caleb and Anna’s little sister finds out there is going to be a new baby in the house, but she does not want a new baby, whom she calls “that terrible baby.” When the baby comes, however, she discovers it is “more perfect than the moon.” Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
McCormick, Dell J. TALL TIMBER TALES, MORE PAUL BUNYAN STORIES. Caxton Printers 1939, 1992, 17th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Lorna Livesly. NOT ex-lib. Book like-new; dust jacket has a touch of wear to rear top edge. $3.50.photo of the actual item
   
Melville, Herman. MOBY-DICK Or, The Whale. W. W. Norton 1976, first published 1851. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Warren Chappell. Commentary by Howard Mumford Jones. Ambleside 10. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. WINNIE-THE-POOH. London: Methuen 1926, 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Ernest H. Shepard. Ambleside 0. CM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. WINNIE-THE-POOH. E. P. Dutton 1926, 1988. Hardcover. Ill. Ernest H. Shepard. Ambleside 0. CM. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Nesbit, E. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN. London: Guild Publishing/Every Child’s Bookshelf 1989, first published 1906. Full-page color illustrations by Pamela Kay. Ambleside 4. SCM. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Nesbit, E. SHAKESPEARE RETOLD. Harper 2016. Hardcover with dust jacket. Exquisite illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo. Seven plays plus a historical timeline and a short bio of Shakespeare. Ambleside 1-3. 0062404539. Brand-New. $12.photo of the actual item
    
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. Dalmatian Press Classic Library 2007, first published 1905. Deluxe hardcover, red leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Elegant binding! Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. Ambleside 9. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Very Good with ¼” tear at top of spine. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Peet, Bill. CAPYBOPPY. Houghton Mifflin SOFTCOVER 1966, 1994. Ill. by Peet. Sonlight A. 0395383684. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Poortvliet, Rien, illustrator. THE BOOK OF THE SANDMAN AND THE ALPHABET OF SLEEP, text by Wil Huygen. Harry Abrams 1989, first published in The Netherlands in 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Two travelers discover the secrets of sleep from the Sandman himself. Includes a book-within-a-book with helpful hints for both sleepyheads and insomniacs. Exquisite illustrations by Poortvliet. 0810915243. Book Like-New; dust jacket clean and bright with ¾” tear at spine edge. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Potok, Chaim. THE CHOSEN. Simon & Schuster 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 11. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Pushkin, Aleksandr. THE GOLDEN COCKEREL AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. Doubleday 1990, first edition thus. Gloriously illustrated by Boris Zvorykin. These tales were told to Pushkin at the knee of his nurse, written down by him while in exile in the south of Russia. Rudolf Nureyev in the introduction states they are “derived from folktales told by peasants from time immemorial, the oldest voice of Mother Russia.” Book and dust jacket are Like-New with the exception of a previous owner’s name and inscription. $10.photo of the actual item
     
Pyle, Howard. THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library 1952, first published 1883. Hardcover. Ill. Lawrence Beall Smith. Ambleside 2. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Rawls, Wilson. WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS, The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy. Bantam Books 1961, 1992. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 6. SCM. 0553089005. Brand-New. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Miss Read. NO HOLLY FOR MISS QUINN. Houghton Mifflin 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Miss Read. BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN. Houghton Mifflin 1976, first Am. ed. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Rounds, Glen. OL’ PAUL THE MIGHTY LOGGER. Holiday House SOFTCOVER 1936, 1976. Ill. by Rounds. Ambleside. 0823407136. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Salten, Felix. BAMBI’S CHILDREN, The Story of a Forest Family. Grosset & Dunlap 1939. Hardcover. Ill. Erna Pinner. NOT ex-lib. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Sawyer, Ruth. ROLLER SKATES. The Viking Press 1936, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Valenti Angelo. Newbery Medal 1937. Delightful story of 1890’s New York and a stubborn and clever tomboy who could not help being a lady at the same time. CM Alveary. Small school stamp. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Schmidt, Gary D. THE WEDNESDAY WARS. Clarion Books 2007, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Honor 2008. Holling Hoodhood is a seventh grader in Long Island, New York who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher while the rest of the class is at religious instruction. He is sure she must hate him – why else would he be given the assignment of reading, of all things, the plays of William Shakespeare outside of class! Wonderful! - hilarious and inspiring! 0618724834. Very Good with library sticker on endpapers; no marks on dust jacket. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Shakespeare, William. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Dover Publications SOFTCOVER 2003. A republication of the work originally pubished in 1908. Complete text of play with 40 full-color and numerous b/w illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, crease to front cover and small indentation that does not go through the paper. $5.photo of the actual item
     
Showell, Ellen Harvey. CECELIA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAIN BOY. Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1983, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. When Cecelia searches for a place where people love music and dancing as much as she does, she finds the path that leads to Blue Mountain. There, by a creek, Cecelia meets her true love. Lovely, romantic fantasy, which is set in the remote Appalachian countryside. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Shute, Nevil. PIED PIPER. London: Heinemann/Heron Books 1942, later printing. Hardcover with decorative leatherette binding, gilt decoration. Original illustrations by Shirley Walker. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Steinbeck, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. The Viking Press 1939, BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Stratton-Porter, Gene. A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST. Tyndale House 1909, 1991. SOFTCOVER. Determined to overcome her mother’s rejection and the shadows of her past, lovely Elnora finds true love in the wilderness of the Limberlost. SCM. 0842310150. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Terhune, Albert Payson. A DOG NAMED CHIPS, The Life and Adventures of a Mongrel Scamp. Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Pictorial hardcover. Ambleside 5. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR. London: Folio Society 1963, first published 1848. Hardcover in original slipcase. Full-page b/w illustrations by Robin Jacques. Entertaining satire of upper-middle-class London life that asks the question, “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied?”. CM Alveary. Case is worn at corners. Bound in blue/mauve silk. Gilt title to spine. Internally very clean & binding firm; spot on front cover. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Thurber, James. THE THURBER CARNIVAL. Harper & Bros. 1911, 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Thurber. Ambleside 8. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Wells, Helen. CHERRY AMES, SENIOR NURSE. Grosset & Dunlap 1944. #2 in series. Pictorial hardcover; yellow spine. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
White, E. B. THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN. HarperCollins 1970, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Fred Marcellino. SCM. Heart of Dakota Curriculum. 006028935x. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Grosset & Dunlap 1903, 1917. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket. Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS. Harper Collins 1932, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Garth Williams. #1 in series. Ambleside 1. CM Alveary. SCM. 75 Classics Not-To-Miss. 0060264306. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK. Harper & Row 1937, 1953. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Garth Williams. #4 in series. Ambleside 3. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. LITTLE HOUSE IN THE OZARKS, A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler, The Rediscovered Writings. Edited by Stephen W. Hines. Hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of more than 140 pieces sparkling with Wilder’s timeless wit and wisdom, 90% of which have never been published in book form. 315 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
ANTIQUE, SIGNED, RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. Charles Scribner’s 1886, 1947. Hardcover. Ten wonderful color plates and numerous pen drawings by Reginald Burch. Cover is black cloth over boards with paste-down illustration. Ambleside 3.5. Very Good. $16.photo of the actual item
   
Carlson, Natalie Savage. A BROTHER FOR THE ORPHELINES. Harper & Row 1959. Ill. Garth Williams. The orphelines, orphans in a French orphanage, find a baby boy on their doorstep. The question is, how are twenty fond foster sisters going to manage to keep their new brother? Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Dodge, Mary Mapes. HANS BRINKER Or The Silver Skates. Grosset & Dunlap, no date, ca 1920. Hardcover. Complete and unbridged. Full-page b/w illustrations by un-named artist. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Fiedler, Maggi. CORKY’S PET PARADE. Pied Piper Books 1946. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Corky is a little black boy who is pleased to be going by himself to play in the park, leaving his pet chicken at home. When his chicken shows up at the park he proceeds to enter him in the pet show. Cute, comical. NOT ex-lib. Good, first two pages have creased corner. $6.photo of the actual item
     
Henry, Marguerite. MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE. Rand McNally 1947, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. SCM. Sonlight 4 Readers. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has edge wear. Lovely vintage copy! $10.photo of the actual item
  
Lowell, James Russell. LOWELL’S POEMS. Household Edition of the Poets. Houghton Mifflin 1848, 1886. Hardcover. Illustrated. Dedication page reads “The First Complete Edition of my Poems.” 420 pp. plus index. NOT ex-lib. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Orfield, Didrick J. UNCLE DIDRICK’S STORIES. Minneapolis: Minnesota Publishing Co. 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Marion H. Matchitt. The book is dedicated to the author’s 8 nieces and nephews with 96 pages of poems full of the imagination and dreams of little children, accompanied by full-page illustrations, many in color. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good with previous owner’s name; dust jacket has edge tears and warping. $8.photo of the actual item
     
Palgrave, Francis T. PALGRAVE’S GOLDEN TREASURY. Macmillan 1904, 1917. Hardcover, green leather with gilt binding and spine decoration. 279 pages including notes and index. Small, elegant book, 4 1/8” x 6 ½”. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Excellent condition with no writing, no tears, no soil, no cover wear. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Rand McNally Elf. FIREMAN JOE. Start-Right Elf Book, by Virginia Hunter. Rand McNally 1959. Hardcover. Ill. Marge Opitz. Vintage clothes, vehicles. Immaculate with no tears, no writing. very little cover wear. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Rand McNally Elf. THE GIANT’S SHOE. Start-Right Elf Book, by Jessica Nelson North. Rand McNally 1967. Hardcover. Ill. Esther Friend. With delightful illustrations and rhyming text, here is a new version of “There was an old woman who lived in a house. . .” which fell down and she took her family to live various places until they ended up in, of all place, a shoe. Immaculate with no tears, no writing. very little cover wear. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Sendak, Maurice. THE SIGN ON ROSIE’S DOOR. Harper & Row 1960. Hardcover. Ill. Sendak. Rosie is a very imaginative, clever little girl and a real inspiration for all of the neighborhood, especially when it comes to creative activity. Hilarious story! NOT ex-lib. Very Good, but two corners of cover quite worn. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Whitman Publishing. FUZZY DUCKLING, illustrated by Sharon Banigan. A Fuzzy Wuzzy Book. Whitman 1952. Adorable duckling is fuzzy on cover and most pages. Good with cover wear. $3.50.photo of the actual item
   
AMBLESIDE/SCM SOFTCOVERS
Fitzgerald, John D. ME AND MY LITTLE BRAIN. Dell Yearling SOFTCOVER 19971, 1972. Near-Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Lovelace, Maud Hart. BETSY AND TACY GO OVER THE BIG HILL. Harper & Row SOFTCOVER 1942, 1979. Cover and illustrations by Lois Lenski. Ambleside 2. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Lovelace, Maud Hart. BETSY AND TACY GO DOWNTOWN. Harper& Row SOFTCOVER 1943, 1979. Ill. Lois Lenski. Ambleside 2. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Lovelace, Maud Hart. BETSY IN SPITE OF HERSELF. HarperTrophy SOFTCOVER 1946, 1980. Betsy is a sophomore. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
MacDonald, George. THE LIGHT PRINCESS. Dell Yearling SOFTCOVER 1978, originally published 1864. Ill. Maurice Sendak. SCM. Ambleside 9. 0440447666. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS. Bantam Books SOFTCOVER 1992, first published 1936. #4. Ambleside 5. CM Alveary. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. THE LITTLE HOUSE BOOKS, complete set of 9 in slipcase. Harper Trophy SOFTCOVER 1971. Blue covers with various colored letters. Very Good. $23.photo of the actual item
  
OTHER SOFTCOVERS
Calhoun, Mary. DEPEND ON KATIE JOHN. Harper Trophy SOFTCOVER 1961, 1970. Ill. Paul Frame. Katie John is an irrepressible girl whose imaginative adventures will charm and amuse pre-teen -age readers. Fine, looks unread. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Carlson, Natalie Savage. THE EMPTY SCHOOLHOUSE. Dell Yearling SOFTCOVER 1965, 1972. School integration. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Grover, Wayne. ALI AND THE GOLDEN EAGLE. Sonlight Curriculum SOFTCOVER 1995, 1997. Sonlight F. 1887840265. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY OF THE CASTAWAY CHILDREN, by Kathryn Kenny. Western Publishing SOFTCOVER 1978, 1985. #21. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY AT MAYPENNY’S. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1980. #31. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. THE ADVENTURES OF LAURA & JACK, A Little House Chapter Book. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1998. Adapted from Little House in the Big Woods. Ill. Renee Graef. Like-New. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Woolley, Catherine. A ROOM FOR CATHY. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1956. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
READERS / SPELLERS / CURRICULUM
Laidlaw Readers. ON THE WAY TO STORYLAND, by Gerald Yoakam, Kathleen Hester, Louise Abney. Laidlaw Brothers 1947, 1955 Hardcover. Ill. Milo Winter. No level given, probably Grade 2. Good, some interior fingerprints, corner wear. $3.50.88659041. Like-New. $photo of the actual item
 
FICTION / LITERATURE - YOUNG ADULTS / PARENTS
Goudge, Elizabeth. GREEN DOLPHIN STREET. Sundial Press 1944, 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Price, Eugenia. LIGHTHOUSE. J. B. Lippincott 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket. First in St. Simon’s trilogy. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Thane, Elswyth. EVER AFTER. Hawthorn Books 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. Third in “Williamsburg” Series. Spanish-American war. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $6.photo of the actual item
 
BIOGRAPHIES / MEMOIRS - YOUNG ADULTS / PARENTS
Artley, Bob and Artley, Rob. MEMORIES OF A FARM KITCHEN. Pelican Publishing Co. 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Bob Artley. Artley captures with his signature drawings and poignant memories of his childhood the vibrant life of the farm kitchen of the early 1900’s. Warm and humorous. Includes 34 down-home recipes. 1589801504. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Bjorn, Thyra Ferre. DEAR PAPA. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963, second printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Bjorn, Thyra Ferre. THE HOME HAS A HEART. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1968, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mrs. Bjorn takes us back through the years to her childhood in the parsonage in Swedish Lapland and then to her life as a mother and housewife in Masssachusetts. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
RAISING, EDUCATING CHILDREN / FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Hunt, Gladys. HONEY FOR A CHILD’S HEART, The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life. Zondervan SOFTCOVER 1989. Third Edition. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Kendrick, Stephen & Alex. THE LOVE DARE. B&H Publishing 2008. SOFTCOVER. A 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Marantz, Sylvia. PICTURE BOOKS FOR LOOKING AND LEARNING, Awakening Visual Perceptions through the Art of Children’s Books. Oryx Press 1992. SOFTCOVER. 208 pp. with index. Ex-lib. Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Nagel, Stina. LITTLE BOYS. C. R. Gibson 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Nagel. Adorable ill. by Nagel. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Pearl, Michael & Debi. TO TRAIN UP A CHILD. Michael Pearl 1994, 1999. SOFTCOVER. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Quine, David & Shirley. LET US HIGHLY RESOLVE, Preparing Families to Enter the 21st Century. Cornerstone Curriculum Project 1996. SOFTCOVER. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
C. S. LEWIS
Hannay, Margaret Patterson. C. S. LEWIS. Frederick Unger Publishing 1981. SOFTCOVER. Modern Literature Series. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $7.photo of the actual item
 
McGrath, Alister. C. S. LEWIS, A LIFE. ECCENTRIC GENIUS. RELUCTANT PROPHET. Tyndale House 2014. Hardcover with dust jacket. Endorsed by Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller, N. T. Wright, others. 431 pp. with index. Like-New. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Sibley, Brian. C. S. LEWIS, THROUGH THE SHADOWLANDS, The Story of His Life With Joy Davidman. Fleming H. Revell 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stirring, true story. 0800715098. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
OTHER NON-FICTION, ADULTS / YOUNG ADULTS
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. ETHICS. Macmillan 1933, 1975. SOFTCOVER. Very Good. 0020838700. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. THE THEOLOGY OF DIETRICH BONHEOFFER, by John Godsey. The Westminster Press 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Bye, Erik. BLOW, SILVER WIND, A Story of Norwegian Immigration to America. Norwegian-American Culture Institute 1978, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Graphics which eloquently illustrate the story are by Karl Erik Harr, one of Norway’s principal graphic artists. The book does not claim to be a “history,” but an enjoyable and informative “painting” in poetry and prose, giving a real sensation of the lives, feelings, and thoughts of the early Norwegian immigrants. 119 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good; small edge tears in dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Schaeffer, Francis A. & Koop, C. Everett, M.D. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE? Exposing our Rapid Yet Subtle Loss of Human Rights. Fleming H. Revell 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket. 0800710517. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
Davis, David. NURSE’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Pelican Publishing 2003. Ill. James Rice. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Domanska, Janina, ill. THE FIRST NOEL. Greenwillow 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. Words of the carol are accompanied by Domanska’s vivid, striking illustrations. 4to. FFEP torn and repaired. Dust jacket near-fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Engelbreit, Mary, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2003. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Fujikawa, Gyo. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement C. Moore. Sterling Pupblishing 2007, first edition thus. Wonderful illustrations by Fujikawa. Near-Fine, touch of wear at spine ends. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Hayes, Wilma Pitchford. CHRISTMAS ON THE MAYFLOWER. Coward-McCann 1956. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Roger Duvoisin. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 2-5. Ex-lib. Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hegg, Tom. PEEF THE CHRISTMAS BEAR. Waldman House Press 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Hoffmann, E.T.A. NUTCRACKER. Retold by Fiona Black. Barnes & Noble 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Scott Gustafson. 0760703752. Book and dust jacket Fine, previous owner’s name. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hughes, R. Kent. THE GIFT, Seven Meditations on the Events Surrounding Jesus’ Birth. Crossway Books 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Paintings by Ron DiCianni; Calligraphy by Timothy R. Botts. Folio. 48 pp. Book Fine, dust jacket Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Ideals. IDEALS CHRISTMAS. Ideals 1990. SOFTCOVER. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Iguchi, Bunshu. THE SHEPHERD BOY’S CHRISTMAS. Judson Press 1978. Original edition published in Japan in 1976, translated by Peggy Blakeley. Church card pocket in front of book, no other marks. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Leighton, Maxinne. AN ELLIS ISLAND CHRISTMAS. Viking 1992 FE. HC/DJ. Young Krysia crosses the Atlantic to join her father in America and arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve, fearful and uncertain. Ex-lib. VG/VG. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Martinson, Tom. THE CHRISTMAS LOON. Wisconsin: North Wood Press 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Illustrated with beautiful b/w and color nature photographs. This is a story of the author’s daughter who spends a summer observing and becoming attached to a loon on the lake. 1559710926. Book Like-New; dust jacket has tear. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Moncure, Jane Belk. JENNIE AND THE BLACK STOCKINGS. Dandelion House 1984. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Lydia Halverson. Ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Parish, Peggy. MERRY CHRISTMAS, AMELIA BEDELIA. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1986, 2002. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Ringgold, Faith, illustrator. O HOLY NIGHT, Christmas With the boys Choir of Harlem. Book and dust jacket with unopened CD. HarperCollins 2004, first edition. Five illustrated carols. Book Like-New; dust jacket has 1” tear at spine edge; CD unopened. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Sharp, Evelyn. THE CHILD’S CHRISTMAS. Derrydale Books 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. With illustrations by Charles Robinson reminiscent of a Victorian Christmas, eight in full-page color and numerous in b/w. Book Fine with previous owner’s name; dust jacket like-new. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Tudor, Tasha, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement C. Moore. Little, Brown SOFTCOVER 1999. One page has repaired tear; spot on bottom edge; cover creased. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Wahl, Jan. THE GOLDEN CHRISTMAS TREE. Golden Books/Western Publishing 1988, first edition. Giant Golden Book. Hardcover. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Gentle, peaceful story of the forest animals’ Christmas tree, with great illustrations by Weisgard. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 

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