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New York, NY: Atheneum, 1978. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ray Cruz (Illustrator). Text/As New. Illustrated yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. It is a matter of wealth (money), a matter of being at least in the same good circumstances of one's older brother, and a matter of now having no more than bus tokens in one's pocket. Would that not drive one to ponder what it takes to be VERY rich? Author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher Judith Viorst (1931-) is known for her Alexander series of short stories. Young readers should emerge with a keener sense of decimals. Fine copy less dust jacket.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1967. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Ochre-yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; strong w/rubs & closed tears to upper/lower spine edges. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. The Sandwich Islands are today's Haiwaii Islands; it was first so named by Captain James Cook in 1878). Historical fiction. Story of young Anne, but 17 year old, voyages around the Cape in 1840 with a group of missionaries to Islands in search for her sea captain father. There she will school Haiwaiian royal children when the British, French & Americans were vying for control of the Islands. Author Marcella Thum (- 2002) received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile book in 1965 (Mystery at Crane's Landing).

New York, NY: Scholastic/Harper & Row, 1989. 1st Edition, 10th Printing . Soft Cover/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Arthur Dorros (author illustrated). Text/As New & Bright. 1989, First Edition, 3rd Printing. Illustrated, stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Gift dedication to front cover verso. Superb discourse on major varieties of ants and their social habits --- covering their nesting & daily ways, ant, how to make ant farms. Written & designed for elementary school children, book is enthralling for adults as well. 32 pgs. That both text & illustrations are by Arthur Dorros, gifted in art & narration, is a real plus. Illustrations & text, mutually supportive, form a coherent whole. writt. Ants--Habits and behavior. Ants as pets. Insects--Nests. Insects--Behavior.Prose is lucid and engaging. Contains basic knowledge that elementary school children need, both as a foundation and stimulant for further study of non-human life around us. Fine copy.

Garden City, NY: Junior Deluxe Editions, 1956. Junior Deluxe Editions, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Girard Goodenow (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1956 Book Club Edition. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/discoloration to inner surface. Illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription to first title page. Woodland life of Bambi by Austro-Hungarian author Felix Salten (1869 - 1945). First published 1923, and propelled to international fame by Walt Disney in 1942. Felix Salten was the pen name of Siegmund Salzmann; a Jewish writer whose books Hitler banned. Originally written in German; English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published 1928 by Simon & Schuster. This printing carries a foreword by John Galsworthy (dated March 16th, 1926), 1932 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and, w/line drawings from Girard Goodenow (1912 - 1988). A magical fable for young and old, and known to many. 191 pgs in 25 chapters.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Reprint of 1916 . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New. Illustrated dark-blue linen boards/Good; strong & sound w/color loss to lower front & lower back edge from water damage. DJ/None. PO name on front cover verso. First published 1886. Written by author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. A sensitive and enduring story of a child born on Christmas Day, and namesake of the day's joyous songs. Young Carol arrived in the world on the wings of song, and is carried off to rest on the same. A life too short but every so rich --- begun in joyous generosity and remained true.

New York, NY: Scholastic, 1996. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. Donna Diamond (Illustrator). BRAND NEW Copy. Stated First Scholastic Edition, First Printing, September 1996. First published 1978, and winner of the John Newberry Award of the same year. A remarkably rich narrative of friendship between a boy and a girl, both fifth graders. Brought together by both being swift-of-foot with a great for running, not a promising start since competition is involved, and the two come from very different family backgrounds. In time they build together a magical kingdom in the woods accessable only by swinging on rope over water ... one day the "bridge" fails, and a twosome become one. An eloquent and reassuring book in face of tragedy who strikes young and old alike. Fine copy of a fine book well worthy of reprinting.

New York, NY: Human Sciences Pr, 1987. 1st Paperback Ed, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Paperback. BRAND NEW Copy. Orange soft cover/NF w/trace wear. Practical primer for successful therapy for children. Excellent guide for professionals in related fields of social work and mental health. 11 chapters: 1, General Consideration; 2, Therapy Room & Materials; 3, Initial Evaluation; 4, First Contact; 5, Establishing & Maintaining a Relationship With the Child; 6, Confidentiality; 7, Parents; 8, School; 9, Potential Problems; 10, Evaluation; and, 11, Termination. Together with Dr. William Frankenbur, author Dr. Dodds developed the Denver Developmental Screening Test. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Scholastic Book Services, 1998. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Tom Pohrt (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. 1998, First Edition, 1st Printing. Illustrated softcover/NF w/light shelfwear. FEP upper corner clipped (PO name removal?) some 5 pgs bent from faulty handling. Anthology of poems to read aloud to children --- modern & classic, fun & creative, imaginative to the mind & musical to the ear. 323 pgs, verse presented alphabetically by authors. Share & read again Joyce Kilmer's (pg 140) "I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree ...", and have fun with Rose Fyleman's (pg 102): "I think mice/are rather nice/Their tails are long, their faces small/ They haven't any chins at all/Their ears are pink, their teeth are white/They run about the house at night/They nibble things they shouldn't touch/And no one seems to like them much/But I think mice are nice".

New York, NY: Maxton Publishers, 1957. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Bright, clean, As New. 1957, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated boards/VG w/rubs to corner tips. PO name & erasure mark to fEP. Front cover verso show 12 United States commemorative half dollars. LAID-IN: short article on "The Symbols on the Dollar Bill". Written for young readers on money. Pointers on collecting coins precedes historical survey of the development of metal money. Technical accuracy reviewed by Vernon Brown, Curator of the Museum of Moneys of the World.

New York, NY: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2011. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Greg Ruth (Illustrator). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. 2011, First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. DJ/None as Issued. Historical novel. Mystery, detective. Life on city streets. Story of 13 year old "newsie" (newspaper boy) Maks Geless begins on Oct 9th, 1893 in New York City --- when newspapers were 2 cents a copy! Life on the streets brings Maks in conflict w/Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang, whose boss covets control of all newsies on the lower East Side & friendship with tough, homeless girl, Willa. So it is until Maks' sister Emma, employed at the Waldorf-Astoria, is accused of theft with but 4 days to prove her innocence, and a thriller evolves!

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1980. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Anne Siberell (Woodcuts). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated DJ/NF; under library mylar. Semi-fictional biography of a Hopi Indian named Dawa-Wufto (which literally means a sun on the rise). Raised on an Indian Reservation in Arizona, by order of the U.S. Government he was sent to the Sherman Indian Institute in Riverside, California for further education. The year was 1928, and Climbing Sun was only eleven years old.

New York, NY: Yearling Books, 1970. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Garth Williams (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW, showing trace discoloration. 1970, Oct. Printing. Illustrated soft cover/NF, w/a whisper of creasing to rear upper corner tip. 1963 Newbery Book Award. Admired classic tale from George Selden Thompson (1929 - 1989), pseudonym George Selden, and Terry Andrews. Tale first published 1961; this is a 1970 re-issue. Fate, in a picnic basket, transports Connecticut cricket Chester to the Bellini's failing newsstand deep in the bowels of the Times Square subway station. There, he becomes friends w/little Mario Bellini, Broadway mouse Tucker & his cat pal, Harry. The four friends turn around the fortunes of the near bankrupt newsstand. 151 pgs, a charming adventure illustrated by Garth Williams of Stuart Little, and Charlotte's Web fame, in 15 chapters.

New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2013. First Edition, 6th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Disney Enterprises. Text/ tape fortified tears to Contents pgs, else As New & Bright. First Edition, 6th Printing. Illustrated boards/NF w/rubs to upper spine edge. DJ/None as Issued. Guide to Frozen, 53rd animated fantasy comedy film produced 2013 by Walt Disney, which won 2 Academy Awards --- Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, "Let It Go". Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen. Story of Princess Anna of the kingdom of Arendelle who sets off on an epic journey with a rugged iceman, his loyal pet reindeer, and a naïve snowman to find her estranged sister, Princess Elsa whose icy powers inadvertently encased in the kingdom into a big freeze of eternal winter. 63 pgs, color illustrated.

Germany: Ravensburger Buchverlag, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. Susanne Krauss (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright; German language. First Edition,1st Printing. Miniature-sized softcover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Title, in English: "A Christmas Crib for Lisa and Tim", and sometimes as "A Nativity Scene for Lisa and Tim". 20 unpaginated pages, engagingly illustrated by Susanne Krauss by Barbara Cratzius (1929 - 2006), tells how Lisa & Tim, preparing for Chistmas w/their parents, create a Nativity scene for their beloved toy animals as well.

Willowdale, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books Ltd, 1997. First Edition, 11the Printing, 1997 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. John Bianchi (Princpal Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1997 11th Printing. Illustrated softcover/VG w/trace edge wear & surface wear. Introduction to astronomy. Winner of Children's Science Book Award, better described as book written for novice star gazers of all ages. Lucid text augmented with color photos & diagrams. Companion book to Exploring the Sky by Day.

Osprey, FL: Beacham Publishing, 2000. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. DJ/NF. First in a projected series (C.S Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia to follow) of study guides in young adult fiction. A guided introduction to the analytical skills of literary criticism.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Paul Galdone (Illustrator). Text/As New; faint margin discoloration & light water (?) stain to upper corner tips of pgs 103 -124. Illustrated grey boards/NF. DJ/VG w/trace shelfwear. Tennessee natural history. Set in 1791 when the state was known as the "Territory South of the River Ohio". Tennessee native, William Owen Steele (1917 - 1979), spent much of his youth exploring the woods around his home which led to an interest in the history of the area and its pioneers. In this story, young Tobias' first impression of Asa Twistletree was not appealing --- he saw a "skinny, twisted & dried up" little man w/spectacles, in leather britches & a ragged coat, on his hands & knees "a-studying ants." Tobias soon finds himself 'bound out' to Mr. Twistletree, loosing previous interest in blacksmithing to follow the odd-looking naturalist, Mr. Twistletree of… Read More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. John Alcorn (Illustrator). Text/trace soiling to title page else Near New. Illustrated yellow linen boards/Good; strong & sound w/soiling, discoloration to surfaces & spine. Treasury of children's songs w/piano accompaniments & guitar chords in full capture songs' spirit. 5 cheerfully illustrated sections: 1, Good Morning & Good Night; 2, Birds & Beasts; 3, Nursery Songs; 4, Silly Songs; and 5, Singing Games & Rounds. A treasury. Fine copy less dustjacket.

New York, NY: Summit Books, 1978. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Wendell Minor (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Brown linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear. PO label to fEP. A 19th century adventure on the high seas at the time Industrial Revolution begins and steam surplants demand for whale oil. Still youths dream sailing from England to the Greenland Sea as did Arthur Storm. A rich tale of the coming of age for a young man, and the passing of an era.

Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Children's Books, 2007. First Edition, 5th Printing 5th Printing. Board Book. Near Fine/None as Issued. Laura Ovresat (Illustrator). Text/As New & Bright. First Edition, 5th Printing. Illustrated boards/NF w/trace shelfwear. A delightful, engaging activity book for toddlers. 5 ocean friends --- a turtle, a sea lion, a lobster, a clownfish & a shark --- hidden behind "peek-a-boo", suprise flaps waiting for littles to find. Suggestive rhymes, musical to the ear when read aloud, offer simple clues to hidden creatures! Fun & engaging.