Search Results: Children's Books: Action/Adventure from pacaritambo books

USA/London: Ticktock/Octopus, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Colin Ashcroft & Lee Gibbons. CONDITION: NEW 2013 Ticktock/Octopus hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), first thus, first printing. Decorated end pages. Excellent bright, detailed color illustrations by Ashcroft and Gibbons. Covers monsters of the "new world" also. Title on cover in raised gold foil. CONTENT: Those with the courage to open this book will find trapped within its pages the foulest, fiercest, and most fantastical creatures to have ever sent shivers up a mortal's spine. Incredible lineups show the beasts in all their hideous glory; learn about their crimes against moral land mythical foes; and get up close with amazing, action-packed battle scenes. Ages 8+, IMHO.

Harcourt Brace, 1980. First Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. Michael Hague the Great color illustrations. CONDITION: Mixed. Very Good+ 1980 Harcourt Brace large paperback, first edition (so it says), 2nd printing. Problems: tiny edge wear to cover corners with a tiny bit top spine. The interior is clean and tight. Beautiful, detailed color illustrations by the Great Michael Hague. CONTENT: More than anything the prince loved the sea. He spent hours at a time watching it rise and fall and crash against the rocks below the palace hill, and he longed to dive and swim in it as the sponge gatherers did. but he was a prince, and the sea was unfit for the royal heir. Once he slipped from the palace to the shore and met an old man who described to him the wonders and beauty that the sea hid below. The prince could not forget the old man's words. Later when he became king, he met Demetrius, a young sponge diver, and made a bargain with him. Demetrius won and, in a way, so did the… Read More

Dial Books for Young Readers, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Virginia Stroud. CONDITION: SIGNED BY AUTHOR. NEW 1995 Dial Books for Young Readers hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ, first edition, first printing. Tiny edge wear to DJ top spine in the form of a very short "repaired" tear. The illustrations are bright and colorful. Excellent "true" story based on the Author's adopted Kiowa grandfather (although she is Cherokee). CONTENT: In her debut picture book, a widely collected Native American artist transports readers to the Oklahoma Territory of the 1890's with the breathtaking--and true--story of a Kiowa boy who earns his warrior name. The sense of camp life in the Kiowa village and the feel of a breathless escape on horseback are evoked in vivid prose and jewel-like art.

Candlewick Press, 2006. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Douglas Carrel B&W illus.. CONDITION: NEW 2006 Candlewick Press hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 2nd printing. B&W illustrations & maps by Douglas Carell. CONTENT: Adventure! Villains! And dragons, dragons, dragons! Brought to us by the creators of the runaway NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers DRAGONOLOGY and THE DRAGONOLOGY HANDBOOK, the Dragonology Chronicles are a series of dragon adventures told by one of Dr. Drake's young students. In Volume 1 of the Chronicles, THE DRAGON'S EYE, Daniel Cook and his sister, Beatrice, spend the summer with their parents' eccentric former tutor, Dr. Ernest Drake. Not only do Daniel and Beatrice begin to study dragonology, but they are also soon caught up in the race to find the stolen Dragon's Eye jewel - which has the power to reflect the true Dragon Master - before it is stolen by evil dragonologist Ignatius Crook. The two must work with Dr. Drake - as well as many friendly… Read More

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

Henry Holt, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Jeremy Holmes B&W maps and illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Henry Holt hardcover (brown boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Wonderful B&W map and illustrations throughout by Jeremy Holmes. CONTENT: "I was dangling from a rope, fifty feet up the side of a great pillar of red Martian rock, when I finally realized I had chosen the wrong summer vacation." And thus begins the adventure. Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan wishes his life on 19th-century British Mars were more like the adventures he reads about in his Thrilling Martian Tales magazine. Sadly, it's school break and instead of being off with his friend Matthew Harrison, he's staying home trying to keep his family on track. His father is a brilliant yet absent-minded mechanician, and his mother's main concern is gaining back the family status she lost when her own father lost the family fortune. When dim-witted cousin Freddie literally comes crashing down, Edward… Read More

Harper, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Wayne McLoughlin cover art/B&W decorations/2-page B&W map of journey. CONDITION: NEW 2011 Harper hardcover (lavender boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Wayne McLoughlin with B&W decorations top each chapter. Embossed title front DJ panel. 2-page B&W map of bear's journey. CONTENT: On the unforgiving Arctic ice, united once again, Toklo, Lusa, Kallik, and Ujurak continue across the ice. Conditions are harsh and especially treacherous for the black bear and grizzly bears who are not used to the brutal cold, never-ending snow, and limited food. But the bears are certain now that they're on the right course, and with the stars still guiding them, they push forward. When they reach land at last, the group is overjoyed, but something is not right. The bears who live here are ill. What's wrong with them? What can the foursome do to help? Is aiding these strangers the… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. James Rumford color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2001 Houghton Mifflin paperback, first edition, no printing given - assumed first. Color illustrations by James Rumford. CONTENT: Ibn Battuta was the traveler of his age - the fourteenth century - in a time before Columbus when many believed the world was flat. Like Marco Polo, Ibn left behind an account of his own incredible journey from Moroco to China, from the stepps of Russia to the shores of Tanzania, some seventy-five thousand miles in all. James Rumford, himself a world traveler, has retold Ibn Battuta's story in words and pictures, adding the element of ancient Arab maps-maps as colorful and evocative as a Persian miniature, as intricate and mysterious as a tiled Moroccan wall. Into this arabesque of pictures and maps is woven the story not just of a traveler in a world long gone but of a man on his journey through life. It was suggested that the… Read More

Harper, 2012. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Wayne McLoughlin cover art; B&W maps. CONDITION: NEW 2012 Harper trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. Chapter decorations; B&W maps. Cover art by Wayne McLoughlin. Contains Adventure Game and future books teasers. CONTENT: "After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on Dove's gentle wing." The deadly battle between ThunderClan and ShadowClan is over, but the aftermath still echoes around all four Clans. As Dovepaw grapples with the knowledge that there are realms-and cats-her senses cannot reach, Jayfeather and Lionblaze are determined to figure out how StarClan could have allowed this fight to happen. Jayfeather soon finds the answer in the darkest of places, and he and Lionblaze prepare to do whatever they can to staunch the flow of evil into ThunderClan. The ties that bind the Clans are slowly breaking in the face of the greatest threat that the… Read More