Childrens Books / Families

Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Golden Press, 1983. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wilkin, Eloise. This book, beautifully illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, is a Golden Sturdy Shape Book. It shows a little boy going through the morning, getting up, washing his face and brushing his teeth, dressing himself (with Daddy's help), going to breakfast that Mom has made, all with his dog that sleeps by his bed. Mom brushes his hair and checks his nails, then he is free to go outside and play with his dog and cat. 12 illustrated boards; the last board is bumped at the bottom, and at the top the glossy part is coming off the board just a bit, as it is with the top front. Original price still on the cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1979. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. A story of a boy who lived with his grandmother. He was very happy living there and thought he always would, but his father remarried when he was nine years old. His father, who was a virtual stranger to him, expected his son to live with them in a big city. 155 pages, no marks or tears noted. Ex-library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001. First American Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. For ages 10 and up. When her younger brother is in danger, fifteen-year-old Maddie runs out of the house she has not left since she was two years old. 132 pages, a chapter book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Bond, Rebecca. When little Maurice is brought home for the first time, his family is excited to find out who he will grow up to be. Will he be a baker like Papa? A writer like Mama? A taxi driver like Uncle Eddie? Or a gardener like Grandmother Marcela. As Maurice begins to grow, his family soon discovers that he has a special gift of his own. This is a gentle, pleasing read that will strike a chord with every child who has ever wondered about his or her future, and every parent who has been wonderfully surprised by it. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Unpaginated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Arno, Enrico. Turi knows only that the letter from Cremona has made his father happy; in fact, the message is an unbelievable stroke of good luck that opens a way out of the desperate poverty in which the boy and his father have been living in Hungary. Grieving over the death of his lovely gypsy wife, unable to find work and overburdened with debts, he is overjoyed when the invitation to come to Cremona and accept the post as director at the Institute of Violin Making. They set out on foot across Hungary, through Yugoslavia (written in 1968) and finally into Italy. Poppa finds his weariness lifted by the gaiety that is his son's gypsy heritage, while Turi's high spirits must sometimes be termpered by Poppa's wisdom. On they press toward their goal, dreaming of the day Poppa will again make the violins they both love. 186 pages with delightful black & white drawings. The cover is green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. The jacket has light wear at the corners with one tiny tear, and light wear at the spine ends, with a 1/8" tear at the spine top. On the front there is a very narrow strip of the cover missing, just the top paper, about 1" long. It is near a white line and is hard to notice. There is a 1/2" tear at the top back, and very light shelfwear at the bottom edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1982. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. For ages 12 and up. Unwilling at first, teen-aged Fran finds herself becoming more and more involved in one of her mother's patients, ninety-year-old Tom Treloar. In her work as a district nurse Nancy, Fran's mother, comes into contact with a great many old people, but even to her Tom is special. His pride and integrity and intelligence, as well as his humor, seem to stand up to every hardship and indignity of illness and old age. He is determined to stay with his wife Lettie in their lifelong home, a house above the Cornish coast that Fran, too, has come to love. When Tom and Lettie are finally separated and Tom is left alone in his house, he counts more than ever on Fran's regular visits. With her help, he begins to tape his memories, which, more and more, come to fascinate her. When the end comes for Tom, Fran, who does not remember ever missing her own father, learns what it is like to lose someone she loves. This is a realistic and moving story of friendship between a teen-age girl and a very old man, but it is not a somber story. Most of all, it is a story of love and sharing, and readers will find themselves caught up in the lives of these two strong, generous people. 158 pages, the binding is blue cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1973. Seventh Printing. Hard Bound, Half Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Hyman, Trina Schart. Originally published in 1935, this book was awarded the John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. In her new forward the author recalls the real Caddie, who was her grandmother, and tells how she often "sat spellbound, listening, listening!" as Caddie told stories of her pioneer childhood. Children everywhere will love red-headed Caddie with her penchant for pranks. Scarcely out of one scrape before she is into another, she refuses to be a "lady." The spine ends are bent in a bit. The DJ has minor wear at the bottom, a 1" tear at the top and is bent over in a few places. Price is clipped but there is a price tag included. Well illustrated. 275 pages, no marks or tears. Gift inscription on fep. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Eau Claire, WI: E. M. Hale and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hard Bound, Pictorial. Fine/No Jacket. Caswell, Helen R.. First Cadmus Edition - a special edition published by arrangement with publishers of the regular edition. Everything Esther did that week went wrong. She broke the best sugar bowl. She couldn't do her arithmetic because part of her book had been eaten by a horse. Her only pleasure was her horse, Lochinvar, and remembering how free and happy the gypsies in their camp nearby seemed, she jumped on her horse and ran away to join them. Although she was urged to go home when her father came for her, he ignored her when she and a friend ran into some men stealing. He didn't listen until someone was almost murdered. 106 pages, illustrated. Heavy library binding but NOT an ex-lib. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Albert Whitman & Company, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Tang, Charles . Pictorial cover; it shows the children climbing a bluff, and it appears one has fallen and is injured. The children are on a jaunt with their grandfather. On the trip though, their grandfather disappears during a storm. 120 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1977. First Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Laura, twelve-years-old, comes from a family of overachievers and wishes that she were special in some was as well. She then discovers she has psychic ability, which nobody else in her family has. 179 pages, no marks or tears. The binding has an area that looks a bit different in the right light, possibly a water spill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Robinson, Charles. Laurie was worried about her grandfather, whose eyesight was getting worse. That night he announced that she would ride out of Hawkins Dry Riggings, all the way across Montana to fetch Uncle Arthur for help. She was very excited; it was a long journey and she hadn't been away from home since she was three. The binding has light wear top and bottom, especially at the corners and spine. 187 pages, illustrated; one page has a spot on it, no tears. Very little in lib. markings. In a mylar cover with a sticker on the spine. Price not clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Bridgewater Books, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Sorensen, Henri. Based on the author's own childhood memories, this is a young boy's affecting story of remembrance and understanding. When his beloved grandfather dies, a child is understandably full of questions. Where did he go? Does this mean he doesn't love me anymore? This is a book for families to share. Wonderfully comforting and simply wrought, Bruce Coville's thoughtful, true-to-life narrative can help parents and children alike come to terms with the questions raised by the death of a close relative. Henri Sorensen's sensitive watercolors glowingly depict the joys of remembering, the soft sorrows of loss, and, ultimately, the celebration of life. Fully illustrated in color. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Joanna Cotler Books, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. A book for 8 - 12 years old. He may have been given a bit part in the school play. . . but Leo, 12 years old, dreams he is the biggest star on Broadway. Sure, his big, noisy family makes him feel lilke a sardine squashed in a tin . . . but in his fantasy he gets all the attention he wants. Yes, his papa seems sad and distracted . . . but Leo imagines him as a boy, tap-dancing and singing with delight. That's why they call Leo "fog boy." He's always dreaming, always replaying things in his brain. He fantasizes about who he is in order to discover who he will become. As an actor in the school play, he is poised and ready for the curtain to open. But in the play that is his life, Leo is eager to discover what part will be his. This book includes the text for the play "Rumpopo's Porch." 149 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Third Printing. This is a moving story for pre-teens and teenagers, about an 11-year-old girl. In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the 11-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls. Through this friendship, she finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem. 234 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Columbus, OH: Newfield Publications, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. A Weekly Reader book. Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard. 95 pages, with the pages yellowing a bit. The binding is pictorial. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Vancouver, BC, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited, 1997. First Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Very Good/Fine. Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember current things, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother rang away from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa. Luckily for Mickey, his wonderful Uncle Ronald and crafty twin aunts, the O'Malley girls, embrace, love, and protect him. Despite the fact that they are under siege for not paying their taxes, rightly so, Mickey feels safe for the first time in his short life. And when his father tracks them down, his Uncle Ronald and his horse make sure that Mickey remains safe. An ex-library, the ffep is stamped and unattractive, but that is about all for ex-library markings. 138 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. This is the first in a series of "Elsie Dinsmore" books. Living with her uncle’s family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her and her religious principles. This book is humorous as well, maybe because it was written in the 1890's; most of Elsie's problems result in her crying. I'm sure there is no other character who cries as much as Elsie, which becomes kind of funny in itself! This is a wonderful book for any age, though, as her life is absorbing, interesting, and difficult all at once. I've read the entire series and often go back to this volume as something like an old friend; despite her problems with her father, he turns out to be a - oh, I can't give it away. 316 pages, probably published in the 1940s or '50s. There is a gift inscription on the decorated endpapers. The yellow binding has lightly worn corners, and is a somewhat darker on the left front which extends to the spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1966. First Edition. Hard Bound, Pictorial. Near Fine/No Jacket. Von Schmidt, Eric. A Young America Book Club book. Chancy is finally old enough to strike out into the world to find his brother and sisters. They were all separated after the Civil War that killed his father, and the winter flu that killed his mother. He has a wheelbarrow and meets all kinds of people on his trek, including an uncle and the grand rascal. Light wear at the spine ends and bottom corners. 179 pages, nicely illustrated; no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper Collins, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Sewall, Marcia. Young Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his Grandfather's farm with the purse from the ten-mile dog sled race he enters. 81 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hyperion, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. The other Shepards died nearly twenty years ago, but eighth grader Holland Shepard and her younger sister, Geneva, are shadowed by other people's memories of their two brothers and sister. The enormity of their family's loss has limited the scope of the girls' own identities; "Whatever else we are," Holland reflects, "has been swallowed up by our haunting." Then Annie the painter arrives. She steps easily into their Greenwich Village home and, with insouciant charm, widens the sisters' perspective of themselves, their city, and the tragedy that has preceded them. It is Annie who gives them the courage to embark on a journey to make peace with their past, and redefine themselves beyond grief and memories. Part ghost story, part love story, this wonderful novel is a narrative of loss and healing, reality and memory. 218 pages. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Middletown, CT: Weekly Reader Books, 1974. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Robinson, Charles. The story of three orphans and their attempt to find, and keep, a home. Binding is fine. 105 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Coward-McCann, Inc., 1943. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Binding is very good, very light wear at the corners. Included are two novels by two different authors in one volume. 208 pages, total, yellowed at the edges but otherwise fine. 5.25" x 7.75" high. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Cobblehill Books, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Seventh printing. Kit and her best friend, Tracy, entertain themselves by pretending to be Harriet Headline and Sharon Shocker, reporters for a tabloid newspaper. But even the outrageous headlines they invent can't help Kit laugh away a series of problems at home and school. Her frustration builds until Kit, in a moment of self-pity, makes a major mistake. She finds herself in trouble - with her family and the police. When she tries to hide what she has done, her difficulties multiply and a rift with Tracy occurs. Then a juvenile court committee sentences Kit to do community service work at The Humane Society and Kit makes new friends, both human and animal. Her efforts to find a home for Lady, a stray dog, lead to heartbreak, but they also help her find the courage she needs to make changes in her life. Written with humor and pathos, Cages is a perceptive portrait of an intelligent, spirited teenager who learns to accept responsibility for her own actions. 150 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Cobblehill Books, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Seventh printing. Kit and her best friend, Tracy, entertain themselves by pretending to be Harriet Headline and Sharon Shocker, reporters for a tabloid newspaper. But even the outrageous headlines they invent can't help Kit laugh away a series of problems at home and school. Her frustration builds until Kit, in a moment of self-pity, makes a major mistake. She finds herself in trouble - with her family and the police. When she tries to hide what she has done, her difficulties multiply and a rift with Tracy occurs. Then a juvenile court committee sentences Kit to do community service work at The Humane Society and Kit makes new friends, both human and animal. Her efforts to find a home for Lady, a stray dog, lead to heartbreak, but they also help her find the courage she needs to make changes in her life. Written with humor and pathos, Cages is a perceptive portrait of an intelligent, spirited teenager who learns to accept responsibility for her own actions. 150 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1957. 10th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Knight, Hilary. The illustrations are in the 3rd printing in this edition. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle was one of my favorite characters as a child because of her absolute good humor and love of children. Whenever something bad happened, she would cheerfully fix it right up without scolding or getting angry or flustered. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. The Junior Literary Guild. Hard Bound, Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Robinson, Jessie. Henry Jones wants to buy a bicycle. He decided which one was best; now he had to come up with the money. Luckily, a job practically fell into his lap and he became old Mrs.Turnipseed's hired boy. She tested him first and he passed, so he was to help her with all sorts of things because, at the age of 100, she decided it was time for a family reunion. Written with great humor and full of surprises. The dark orange binding has a monotone picture of Henry on the front along with a model ship and what looks like treasure. 127 pages, nicely illustrated, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Delafield, WI: Lang Books, 1999. Second Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Crouch, Karen Hillard. This stirring story of friendship is in a dust jacket, in a protective slipcase. The story is simple, of a snow that came just after Thanksgiving one year, and of a magical snowman named Bob that was made. His message was simple: That friends are near and thinking of you even when you can't see them. Unpaginated, 28 pages, beautifully illustrated in full color. The slipcase has a bump on the closed side. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub Co, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Burns, Raymond. This book for young children is about a family of children who want to buy their mother a birthday present. The two older children build a large snowman, and try to sell it, but they tell their younger brother that he is not big enough to help. So he makes little snowmen, and puts them in a box to sell in their neighborhood. He turns out to be the one who earns enough money to buy the birthday present! Unpaginated, large type for beginning readers, well illustrated throughout. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United Church Press, 1963. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hirsch, Shirley. Binding has very slight bumps on the corners. 96 page, light brown cover with darker brown lettering and design. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Grosset & Dunlap, 1963. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Leone, Sergio. The binding has very slight wear at the edges. The spine has a split on the inside, halfway through the book. A Companion Library book. The front is illustrated with Heidi, her grandfather, and a goat, with the Swiss mountains in the background. The story is 295 pages, with several additional pages written about the author. Pages slightly tanned, otherwise fine. more information

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. His Majetsy's elephant is Abul Abbas, a gift of the Caliph Haron al-Rashid to his friend Charlemagne, Emperor of the West. Along with the elephant comes a golden talisman containing a fragment of the True Cross. Along with the talisman comes . . . trouble. Only Charlemagne's daughter Rowan, whose mother was a witch, and her friend Kerrec, the elephant's keeper, know how much trouble. These two youg people understand magic. But do they understand it enough? The is a brilliant and moving novel based on history and infused with enchantments, a novel about loyalty, about fathers and daughters, courage, and incidentally, about magic as well. The binding has a small glossy green elephant; 193 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Winslow Pr, 2000. First American Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Wright, Cliff. When they fight, the world shakes. The house quakes. When they are friends, the sun comes out. I float on clouds," says a small badger about his parents fights. The beautiful illustrations and the simple, powerful text plore the badger's different feelings and reassure the reader about relationships within the family. In a stressful family situation, children can find it difficult to express their feelings. This book provides a wonderful opportunity for children and parents to talk about their feelings together . . . . It confirms for children many of the feelings they experience during parents fights - the fear, isolation, and sadness - and yet ends with an uplifting resolution. - Dr. Barbara Kezur, Ph.D, Psychology Unpaginated, very large print (just a few words on each page). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Hard Bound, Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Williams, Garth. A book about living in a log house in Wisconsin in the 1800's. They lived in comparative wilderness with the woods all around, and wild animals of all types shared the woods with them. This is a reprint of the 1953 volume in which Garth Williams did the illustrations. The book has light wear on the bottom edges and spine bottom, and some scuffing/light soil on the front of the beige cover. 238 pages, no marks or tears. Illustrated with William's wonderful imaginative drawings in black and white. Inside the front cover is an odd writing by a ten-year-old, sort of a diary page (she wanted to be a writer). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Waco, TX: Word, Inc., 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. hergenroeder, Ernie. This is a weekly Reader book in the Ready-Set-Grow series. This educational book is designed to give the child a better understanding of his or her role as a member of a family. The book has five parts: What is a family?, Family Roles, Family Relationships, Family Rules, and Family Responsibilities. The illustrations are in color and black & white. At the end of each section there is a short exercise based on what was just read. A good book for home schooling. The binding has wear on the corners, and near the spine bottom there is a small tear. The binding is tight. 128 pages, all are fine with no tears or marks. They are slightly yellowed. The inside back cover has a pencil scrawl on it. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Ward, Lynd. This is the Illustrated Junior Library edition. With color and black & white illustrations, this is the favorite chronicle written by a Swiss Army Chaplain that has entertained generations of boys as the perfect "desert island story." Only the island on which their wrecked ship was cast wasn't a desert island! It contained all manner of flora and fauna on which the resourceful father, mother, and four boys learned to subsist. The book has decorated cloth covers which have wear at the corners and light wear at the spine ends. The endpapers are illustrated and fine. The page tops are red, and look as though a liquid has lightened portions, although there is no evidence of any liquid on the pages. The jacket is in a protective cover and has small pieces missing on the spine, front, and back. The back is lightened in several places. The binding is very solid; 377 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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