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Greenwillow Books, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Deborah Marcero B&W illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Greenwillow small hardcover (green boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Adorable B&W illustrations by Deborah Marcero. CONTENT: A must-have for newly independent readers and fans of Ivy + Bean and Clementine! The first of a new series starring three young girls and a mysterious visitor who appears exactly when you need her-with just the right amount of magic. Sadie has two best friends: Jess and Maya. But Jess can only take one friend on vacation with her, and Sadie is the one who gets left behind. How will Sadie ever survive the days of loneliness and boredom? But wait . . . what is that in her old playhouse in the backyard? A witch has moved in! A kind and funny witch, who's looking for her own two lost friends. Together, Sadie and the witch have a curious adventure, one that makes Sadie see her neighborhood-and herself-with new eyes. Acclaimed authors Ron… Read More

Harcourt, 2007. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. David McPhail color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2007 Harcourt hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 3rd printing. PROBLEM: in the publishing process a drop of glue attached a small area of the back loose end page to the DJ back flap. I have removed it, but the removal is obvious on the end page. The rest of the book is clean and tight. Adorable color illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: To celebrate Big Brown Bear's special day, his friend Rat has planned a lovely picnic on the riverbank. All is going swimmingly, complete with cucumber sandwiches, warm sunshine, and even a surprise gift from Rat. But when Big Brown Bear is suddenly distracted by an empty boat floating past on the river, Rat's plans for the afternoon take a watery turn. Bear forgets his birthday comes on the same day every year, but his friend Rat has not forgotten the special day. Their picnic by a… Read More

Bloomsbury USA, 2003. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Gillian McClure color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2003 Bloomsbury USA hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first American edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. THE DJ IS "AS NEW" due to some light edge wear top edge. Not bad at all, but there. Wonderful, sweet color illustrations by Gillian McClure. CONTENT: Bruna, a solitary child, is always cold. Nothing seems to warm her: not a log fire, not central heating, not hot water bottles, not the 18 blankets on her bed, not even Red Hot Fireball candies. One day Bruna finds a bear drowning in the river and forces herself into the icy water to save her. As she cares for the bear and befriends her, Bruna finds herself growing warmer and warmer, until she never feels cold again. Cottringer's fanciful parable is gracefully told, and McClure contributes a series of beguiling illustrations washed with watercolor… Read More

Walker & Company, 2005. 1st Edition 7th printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Ptrick O'Brien color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2005 Walker hardcover (pictorial boards), but . . NO DUST JACKET, first edition, 7th printing. Great, detailed color illustrations by Patrick O'Brien. Decorated end pages. Space will never be the same! CONTENT: The planet Jurassica is in an uproar. An unidentified flying object has crashed into the mysterious moon of Eon. This looks like a job for ... CAPTAIN RAPTOR! ... hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy! If anyone can solve the terrible moon mystery, it's Captain Raptor and his fearless crew! [Absolutely guaranteed to be weird! A trip!]

Scholastic Pess, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition 11th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Deborah Nourse Lattimore color illus.. CONDITION: NEW 1998 Scholastic large paperback, first paperback printing, 11th printing. Devilish clever and cute color illustrations by the Author. You've probably heard the story of Cinderella, that beautiful girl who hated being dirty and dressed in rage. Well, you won't find her at the Witches' Halloween Ball. Loving dirt more than anything, the blonde-haired witch Hazel manages to follow her stepmother and stepsisters to the Halloween Witches' Ball, where she meets her true love, the equally messy Prince Alarming, in a zany version of the classic fairy tale.

Arcturus, 2018. Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New. Color Illustrations by Various Artists. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Arcturus large (and heavy) soft cover, first edition, no printing given. Colorful and fun illustrations. The front cover title is in red foil and I have protected it - I hope. About 40 stories. Classic Fairy Tales is a wide-ranging anthology showcasing the very best of classic stories for children. Every entry is world-renowned, and the collection provides a beautiful volume of tales that spans an extraordinary spectrum from the uplifting to the hilarious. Each story is accompanied by original and colourful artwork, and the book also includes several re-tellings of famous tales that have enchanted and delighted children of all ages for hundreds of years.

Holiday House, 2001. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Katya Krenina. CONDITION: NEW 2001 Holiday House hardcover (blue boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, assumed first printing. Tiny tiny edge wear to DJ top spine. The color illustrations by Katya Krenina are beautiful in jewel tones. CONTENT: Based on a tale attributed to the 18th-century Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, this luminously rendered story centers on a tailor named Haskel who lives in Tzafat (one of the four holy cities of Israel, long associated with Jewish mysticism). One night Haskel dreams that the moon comes to him, wishing for a cloak to keep herself warm, and Haskel vows to make her one. When he wakes up, he says, "Dream or not, I will keep my promise." Although his uncle, a master tailor, tells him to "stop chasing dreams," Haskel dedicates himself to his goal, and when he hears of a legendary garment that stretches or shrinks to fit the wearer, he sets out to find it, in a journey that takes him first to China… Read More

Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Eugene Yelchin color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Adorable nd fun color illustrations by Eugene Yelchin. CONTENT: This droll fable tells how stylish ants once needed many pairs of beautiful shoes for their busy lives and favorite dance. Because the Tick-Toe-Hip-Clog-Tock-Hop requires a pair of ants to make 36 hundred steps, the cobbler ant works around the clock and becomes very rich. When he accidentally bites his foot, he decides he is working too hard and leaves town. Unable to buy new shoes or have their old ones repaired, the fashionable ants despair. One evening, Red Ant arrives at the party without shoes-or clothes-and dances gracefully. Soon all of the ants discard their shoes. Since then, all of these tiny creatures walk barefoot. Smartly dressed ants with large heads and… Read More

Sky Pony, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Mara Shaugnessy. CONDITION: NEW 2013 Sky Pony hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W and red illustrations by Mara Shaughnessy - very clever and cute. CONTENT: Downpour is the enchanting story of a rainy day turned magical. A rainy day is usually the time to clomp around in rubber boots and discover worms and puddles and other such rainy day things. But this is no ordinary rainy day. Embark on a journey of discovery as the rain begins to wash away the color from the bright red poppies in a field. Follow the color red on its journey, page after page, as it infuses myriad quirky and everyday objects with its bright cheerful hue: from the beaks of curious birds to the big wheel at the faraway fair. In a fresh, poetic style, with bright splashes of color on each page, this high contrast book will allow young readers to learn about color and build their vocabulary while stimulating their… Read More

Albert Whitman & Co., 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Alice Bereton DJ cover art. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Albert Whitman hardcover (green boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Wrap-around DJ art by Alice Bereton. CONTENT: For 13-year old Rose, it feels like a dream come true to have a friend who can perform magic, change shape, and fly her away from the predictability of smalltown life. But secrets have a price, and the more Rose learns about the world of dragons, the more dangerous her life becomes. Helped only by her fantasy-obsessed friend and a local occult enthusiast, Rose soon finds herself risking her life to help Jade recover a mysterious fragment of a meteorite called the Harbinger which has the power to awaken countless dragons from their 65-million year slumber. But Jade isn't the only one who wants the Harbinger. The most powerful man in Las Vegas is actually another dragon who wants the stone to fulfill his own ambitions. The fragile bond between Rose and… Read More

Minedition, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/New. Robert Ingpen color illus.. CONDITION: "Mixed condition." Gently pre-read or perused (Very Good +) 2006 Minedition hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (NEW), first edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. Beautiful, as always, color illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: Using spells and magic, the Dreamkeeper^B catches bad dreams as they escape to become real and carries cages and baskets to trap nightmare monsters and transform them. Ingpen, recipient of the 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, melds a wild, chatty, sometimes deliciously scary narrative created for his granddaughter. Beautiful, meticulously detailed pictures show where magic happens, including sepia-toned double-page spreads crowded with storybook people, dragons, knights, animals, and partially clothed characters--all acting out their destinies. There's contemporary magic as well as the old-fashioned sort: the Dreamkeeper's tiny,… Read More

Orchard/Scholastic, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Joanna Yardley color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2001 Orchard hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful color illustrations by Joanna Yardley. Adorable wrap-around dust jacket illustration. CONTENT: In this soothing tale, a resourceful boy finds an alternative to his night light, which burns out just as he is drifting off to sleep. Rather than panic or call for Mom and Dad, Eli looks around his room and realizes there is light everywhere. "The stripes of his wallpaper shone in the dark,/ and so did the frame on his picture of the park," writes Rosenberg in a soft, reassuring cadence. Her understated lyricism takes a particularly nice turn near book's end, when Eli finds comfort in the night sky with "hundreds of stars that would not burn out for a long, long time." Matching the mood of the text, Yardley employs a pastel palette of rich blues ranging from lapis to ink to evoke a… Read More

Dutton Children's Books, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Stephen Mackey color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1999 Dutton Children's Books hardcover (decorated boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Problem: 1 corner bumped and a tiny bit of edge wear top DJ edge. Interior clean, tight, perfect. Wonderful oil painting illustration by Stephen Mackey. CONTENT: Yolen heralds the seductive charms of fairyland in this volume of stories and poems, masterfully illustrated with Mackey's mystical oil paintings. The selections present a wide range of fairy lore from the British Isles, Greece, Persia, New Zealand and southern Africa and include such classics as W.B. Yeats's "The Stolen Child," William Allingham's "The Fairies" and the Scottish folktale "Thomas the Rhymer." Some of the pieces describe fairyland as an idyllic escape from the rough-and-tumble of everyday life, while others warn against the dangers of fairy kidnappers (Ben… Read More

Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999. 1st Paperback Edition 6th Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Brien Pinkney color illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this AS NEW? INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on Title Page. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1999 Aladdin Paperbacks large softcover, first paperback edition, 6th printing. Beautiful color illustrations by Brian Pinkney, for which he won the Coretta Scott King award. CONTENT: A friendship is tested by love and magic in this beautiful, Caldecott Honor-winning retelling of a traditional tale from the French West Indies. Clement and Hippolyte are best friends who live together on the lush tropical island of Martinique. They set off together toward the woman Clement loves so he can propose, but her uncle-a quimboiseur, a wizard-doesn't approve of the match. When his niece flees with the two inseparable friends, the vengeful man sends evil magic after them. Hippolyte may be able to protect the young couple-but will he lose his own life in the process? Set in… Read More

Chronicle Books, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Molly Idle. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2013 Chronicle Books hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. There is nothing much wrong with this book but there is a very small edge wear to bottom DJ spine. The way this book is put together because of the pull-down sections, the binding CAN appear uneven - but it is not. Adorable color illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony. Full of humor and heart, this stunning performance (and splashy ending!) will have readers clapping for more of this fun flamingo story!

Washington - Go Hawks: Wine Press Kids, 2007. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Davy Liu (story & color illustrations). CONDITION: SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NEW 2007 Wine Press Kids over-size hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. Decorated end pages. Beautiful yet "cute" color illustrations by Davy Liu, who provided the story. Text by Douglas Wood. The DJ front panel shows the title in blue and silver foil with embossed clouds, birds, and the subtitle. The interior is clean and very very tight. CONTENT: "To those who can dream, there is no such place as far away." Anyone who has ever had a dream will be enchanted by the adventures of Kendu, a young fox whose search for a giant leaf takes him on an unforgettable journey. With a rambunctious monkey named Yitshak at his side, Kendu ventures into the blackness of the Wilds despite warnings that a fearsome beast known as the Animal Eater resides there. You''ll be as surprised as… Read More

Simon & Schuster Children's/Beach Lane, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Juli Kangas color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Simon & Schuster Children's hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Clever, colorful illustrations by Juli Kangas. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: When I was a kid there was movie cartoon where a sheepdog and coyote would walk to work together as friends, clock in, and fight each other over the sheep until quitting time. Then they would clock out and walk home together as friends. It was great fun. This book reminds me of that. What do the bad actors of fairy tales do after quitting time? This book tells you - they eat dinner together; read stories to each other; quietly wait for bathroom time, etc. And then they sleep. Very cute; very funny, IMHO. Witches, trolls, dragons and big, bad wolves: by day they are such baddies, but cozy at night at home among friends they couldn't be nicer.

HarperCollins, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Stephen Gilpin (DJ art and Cast of Characters); B&W map. CONDITION: NEW 2020 HarperCollins hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Jacket art & interior cast of characters art by Stephen Gilpin. B&W map. CONTENT: Dungeons & Dragons meets Jumanji in the second book in the laugh-out-loud adventure series Homerooms and Hall Passes! Months after saving suburbia from destruction, our heroes are back to their old lives of dungeon delving and magical quests. All except the wizard Albiorix, who has given up adventuring and uses his time trying (unsuccessfully) to create his own board game. When the party finds their old friend June Westray's smartphone for sale in a Bríandalörian bazaar, however, they fear the Realm of Suburbia is under threat. Thus, the five young adventurers must travel back into Homerooms & Hall Passes, a role-playing game where they assume the… Read More

Old Castle Publishing, 1994. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Barbara Stone Polar Bears - in color. CONDITION: SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON LOOSE END PAGE. DUST JACKET IS MISSING! UNREAD 1994 Old Castle Publishing very large hardcover (pictorial boards), but NO DJ and it should have none. Why oh why, dear publishers, do the smallest hands get the largest books? Oh well. Wonderful color illustrations of Polar Bears by Barbara Stone. CONTENT: In the Company of Bears; where you're always treated special and you never have to pretend because you are only seen and loved for just who you are." ?In this whimsical tale, wise and wonderful polar bears have discovered the secret of time, seeing all things exactly and precisely as they are: "To a BEAR, a kettle's a kettle. To a BEAR, a pot is a pot. Bears never call anything something that anything is not." The bears remind us of the beauty of simplicity and unhurriedness, and warn us that to reach any place worthwhile: 'You can't go by clock or by… Read More

HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016. New Edition 14th printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chuck Groenik Cover Art. CONDITION: NEW 2016 HarperCollins Children's Books trade paperback, new edition (or so it seems to me), 14th printing. Lovely, sweet Chuck Groenik cover art. CONTENT: Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a cat? Peter is about to find out . . . Waking from a serious accident, he finds himself transformed. But the life of a street cat is tough and Peter is struggling to survive. Then he meets Jennie - kind and streetwise, she befriends Peter and together they embark on an epic adventure . . . [Also recommended, Gallico's The Snow Goose - simply beautiful, and if you can find the Hallmark movie of it made decades ago, grab it.]