Search Results: Children's Books: Historical Fiction from pacaritambo books

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1997. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stephan Gammell. CONDITION: Very good + overall, 1977 Coward, McCann hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket (in mylar jacket), first edition, assumed first printing. The book has been lightly perused on shelf but is overall clean & tight. The dust jacket shows light edge wear top edge. I know, it sounds like less than very good +. The sepia-tone illustrations by Gammell are perfect for the subject and the text. CONTENT: He is a buffalo out of Montana. He has humped shoulders and slits for eyes. . . . Just remember, old blossom eater, you can stare down the wind. This old rodeo ain't everything. Alice Yazzie is eleven, going on twelve, and with each month that passes she is beginning to see, beginning to feel. In January, she carries the smallest lamb into the hogan, because "He's all new and starry. He's too new to be cold." In July, she walks to market. "Six miles for cupcakes and strawberry pop!" In October,… Read More

Houston: Bright Sky Press, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Joy Fisher Hein. CONDITION: NEW 2012 Bright Sky Press (Houston) large paperback, first printing. Dazzling color illustrations by Joy Fisher Hein. Wildflower legends range from Colonial times (imports) to Native American legends (Comanche) to Texas legends. The history of the legends is addressed in an afterword and a short discussion of each wildflower from the book is also provided. The inside back cover shows a map of North America with climate zones noted. CONTENT: There's a world at our feet few even notice, full of untamed beauties with bizarre names and even more bizarre stories. A book for children of ALL ages, Bloomin' Tales brings the history of these ultimate survivalists - the wildflowers - to life with exciting legends passed down from those who settled the land: the French, Scottish, Mexican, and English, along with the original settlers, the Native Americans. Let award-winning author and garden… Read More

Scholastic Pess, 2005. 1st Edition 5th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Wendy Watson color illustrations. CONDITION: WHAT makes this book "As New" - blank bookplate inside front cover. That's it; that's all. UNREAD/ AS NEW 2004 Scholastic Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 1st printing. Stark color illustrations by Wendy Watson. Excellent Historical Note on the Warrsaw Ghetto of WW II. CONTENT: Set in Warsaw in 1942, this picture book brings to life a little-known incident of Jewish resistance. A young girl who has escaped the Ghetto lives with her older sister who, with friends, plans to smuggle food to those still there. Somehow the Gestapo has heard of the plan and has designs of its own - dogs to sniff out the bundles of food arriving with the resisters on a train. With quick thinking, the friends gather all of the cats living in Krasinski Square into baskets and head for the station. Just as the train pulls in, the felines are let… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. James Rumford color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 1996 Houghton Mifflin hardcover (decorated boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. The front board is in navy blue with a design from the DJ in silver foil. Color illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: The "cloud" of the title is paper - so the title could be "the papermakers." Historical Fiction. The secrets of Chinese papermaking are disclosed to the Arabs in this intriguing piece of historical fiction. Chinese annals give A.D. 105 as the date the world's first true paper was presented to the Emperor. Knowledge of the process traveled slowly westward, reaching Europe on the eve of the Renaissance. According to the author's note, victorious Arab troops captured several papermakers after winning a battle in 751 with the Chinese in Turkestan. This well-written, rhythmic story casts those anonymous papermakers as Old Wu and his young grandson, accidental witnesses to the… Read More

Scholastic Pess, 2009. 1st Paperback Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Jeanne Rorex Bridges. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, c. 2009 Scholastic large paperback (stapled wraps), 16th printing. Wonderful color illustrations by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. Tiny edge wear to book cover top edge. This book has won awards from Texas, Native America, ALA, Oklahoma, etc. CONTENT: In a picture book that highlights rarely discussed intersections between Native Americans in the South and African Americans in bondage, a noted Choctaw storyteller and Cherokee artist join forces with stirring results. Set "in the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears," and told in the lulling rhythms of oral history, the tale opens with a Mississippi Choctaw girl who strays across the Bok Chitto River into the world of Southern plantations, where she befriends a slave boy and his family. When trouble comes, the desperate runaways flee to… 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.

HarperCollins, 1993. New Edition 9th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Fred Brenner color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1993 HarperCollins "new illustrated edition" hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, 9th printing. Fred Brenner's illustrations remind me of the "tinted" B&W illustrations of older books. Remainder mark bottom edges. CONTENT: "You march straight home, sir," said Tommy's father, "and go to your room." Then Mr. Fuller went back into church and banged the door behind him. Instead, Tommy wanders into the barn. There he is startled to find a family of escaping slaves. And so begins an adventure which teaches Tommy that all laws are not fair for all people. This moving story by F.N. Monjo, set in New England in the decade before the Civil War, is sensitively dramatized in Fred Brenner's vibrant drawings.

Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1984. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Patty Rcker B&W illustraitons. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1984 Eakin Press (Austin) hardcover (pictorial boards), no dust jacket issued. Clever B&W illustrations by Patty Rucker. Problem: Blank bookplate covers what I believe is a bookstore stamp or inscription. CONTENT: Sofia and Wilhelm, two young German children accompany their parents to Fredericksburg, Texas, where the German families make peace with the Indians and begin building homes On their way to Fredericksburg, mysterious fires light up the sky on Easter up in the hills above the town. Who built the fires in the hills? Indians? Easter Bunny? A charming tale from the imagination of early Texas settlers.

Handprint Books/Five Mile Press, 2007. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Robyn Johnson color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 2006-7 Handprint/Five Mile Press large hardcover (padded front board) NO DJ ISSUED, first American edition, first printing. Text and color illustrations by Robyn Johnson. 4 large pop-ups of buildings (church, houses), many envelopes to open and read, pull-out booklets, and lift-tabs. This book has it all, plus decorated end pages. CONTENT: Albert and Lucinda from the beloved The Enchanted Dolls' House have pled their troth (Victorian for "got engaged!"). It is a happy time for everyone in the Enchanted Dolls' House. All the dolls from the servant dolls to the toy dolls, even the resident dog and cat dolls enthusiastically join together to celebrate a joyous wedding with all the fashionable and tasteful accoutrement of the Edwardian, Regency and Victorian eras available to them. Four masterfully conceived and constructed pop-up buildings amaze… Read More

Minnesota: Kar-Ben, 2008. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Shahar Kober. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Kar-Ben soft cover, 1st PB edition, 1st printing. Interior clean & tight. Great colorful illustrations by Shahar Kober. CONTENT: A sweet and creative Rosh Hashanah story based on the first historic train ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem on August 27, 1892, shortening the journey between the two cities from 3 days to 3 hours. Engineer Ari's train is coming to Jerusalem collecting goodies along the way to celebrate the Jewish new year, and he learns an important lesson along the way. Ages 4+.

National Geographic Society, 2001. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. Jeffrey Thompson color illus.. CONDITION: NEW 2001 National Geographic hardcover (decorated boards) & dust jacket, first edition, printing unknown. Spectacular color illustrations by Jeffrey Thompson. Afterword by Joseph Bruchac. CONTENT: How Hiawatha slew serpents and traversed deadly, black-pitch waters to vanquish the evil magician Megissogwon is told in the "Pearl-Feather" section of "The Song of Hiawatha." Longfellow's words provide the text for a powerful and engrossing picture-book version of the story. Readers who persevere through the no-longer-familiar poem will be rewarded for their efforts by Hiawatha's exciting adventures, ferocious battles, and victorious homecoming. The text has been capably illustrated in a complex process utilizing original drawings, black-and-white scratchboard, and a computer program for color. The result is uniquely suggestive at once of… Read More

Florida: Chandra, 2018. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. As New/New. Radhe Gendron color illustrations. CONDITION: This book as classified AS NEW because of the Author's inscription and signature with drawings. IT IS UNREAD AND PERFECT otherwise. NEW 2018 Chandra hardcover (pictorial boards) and dust jacket (in mylar jacket if I can find on large enough), first edition, assumed first printing. Simply beautiful and detailed color illustrations by Radhe Gendron. Author's note on the names of the jags in Inca mythology. CONTENT: Journey to the Amazon to meet Inti and Chasca, two jaguar cubs who live in the rainforest with their mama. They spend their days making friends with birds and butterflies, swimming in rock pools, and learning to roar. Everything changes the day sky machines and land machines invade their forest. Afraid for their lives, the cubs escape with their mama under the cloak of night. Now everywhere they travel, surprises and dangers await them. Will they ever find a safe home? The… Read More

USA: 1st Books, 2002. Revised 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2002 1st Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), revised, first printing. Wonderful cover art but no credit given. Important look at saving one of the world's most important resources. CONTENT: Who cares about the rain forest? One boy does, and he works to save it with magic. After a disastrous attempt to scare the Outsiders from the rain forest, the animals seek help from Yoiweta, an old medicine man or Shaman. Approaching manhood, Yoiweta's grandson, Abado, and the animals are sent on a journey to a secret mountain. Guided by a magic emerald and helped by the animals, Abado hopes to find the Wise One, an omnipotent being who grants a unique power to all new Shamans. Abado may ask for any power but only wants a way to save the rainforest. The Joining Tree combines action, danger, romance, and supernatural powers with compassion for the native people and animals of the rain forest. Although written for the young adult, the… Read More

PJ Library/Candlewick, 2016. 1st Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Amy June Bates adorable color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2016 PJ Library/Candlewick paperback, first paperback edition, printing unknown. Wonderful, adorable color illustrations by Amy June Bates. Author's Note details the true 1943 story this book is based on. CONTENT: A kitten's stroll down a keyboard leads to a celebrated one-minute composition in this charming portrait of a remarkable true friendship. Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. But Moshe didn't mind. Everything he heard was music to his ears. One day, while out for a walk, he heard a small, sad sound that he'd never heard before. It was a tiny kitten! "Come on, little Ketzel," Moshe said, "I will take you home and we will make beautiful music together." And they did-in a most surprising way. Inspired by a true story, Lesléa Newman and Amy June Bates craft an engaging tale of a… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. John M.D. Pohl color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2002 Oxford Univ. Press hardcover (red boards with title in black foil) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Color illustrations true to the Codex by the Author. You will see a scan of what the original Codex looked like also. A NOTE ABOUT THE ISBN NUMBER: This ISBN is actually for the original hardcover, but several platforms have mixed up the numbers for paperback, library binding, & electronic reading devices and most are inaccurate. CONTENT: The Legend of Lord Eight Deer is a retelling of the great epic saga of the Mixtec people of Mexico recorded in pictographs painted on deer-hide codices more than 500 years ago. The legend begins with the mysterious murder of three princes and unfolds as Lord Eight Deer embarks on a quest to rule his kingdom that takes him to the gates of the Sun God himself. It is a story of… Read More

Candlewick Press, 2017. 1st Paperback Edition 7th printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Iacopo Bruno color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Candlewick paperback, first paperback edition, 7th printing. Wonderful color illustrations by Iacopo Bruno. CONTENT: When American inventor Benjamin Franklin arrives in Paris, he is upstaged by a compelling and enigmatic figure: Dr. Mesmer. In elaborately staged shows, Mesmer has Parisians believing he can control a magic force that changes the taste of water, cures illness, and controls thoughts! Can Ben Franklin's approach of observing, hypothesizing, and testing get to the bottom of Mesmer's tricks? A rip-roaring, lavishly illustrated peek into a fascinating moment in history shows the development of the scientific method - and reveals the amazing power of the human mind. (History made fun)

Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Laurel Long color illus.. CONDITION: Mixed. UNREAD, but not perfect, 1998 Dial Books for Young Readers hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 2nd printing. Problem lies with 1) Pale scratch on DJ front panel, 2) both bottom corners of the book are bumped; and 3) there is a pale impression front cover that can only been seen when the light is just right. Again, the interior is clean and tight - unread. CONTENT: Welsh legend has it that as a boy, 12th-century Prince Llywelyn was blessed with a faithful dog named Gelert, and this strange and sentimental retelling marks novelist Cullen's picture book debut. Llywelyn and his canine companion are inseparable until he marries a cold princess and begins to ignore his true-hearted dog. One day, the couple's newborn son is missing and Llywelyn, discovering Gelert near the crib with a bloody mouth, raises his… Read More

Schwartz & Wade (Random House), 2011. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Leo & Diane Dillon color illus.. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, Schwartz & Wade large hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, second printing. The book is perfect, BUT - the DJ shows some light edge wear top & bottom spine with a loss-of-color spot top back edge. I may be able to make this better but no matter, it's there now. The color illustrations by the remarkable Dillons are powerful and have the appearance of block prints. CONTENT: This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son.… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Tom Shefelman detailed color illustrations. CONDITION: MIXED. INSCRIBED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR (WITH DRAWING) on front end page. Also a small gift inscription bottom of that page. As New 1992 Houghton Mifflin hardcover (tan & gold decorated boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. PROBLEM: DJ has very light loss of color on 2 letters on the dust jacket title. The color illustrations by Tom Shefelman are detailed and beautiful. CONTENT: When Solomon Joseph Azar immigrates to America from Lebanon in 1909, he brings with him ambition and the willingness to work. Though not without setbacks, he starts as a peddler and then works as a store clerk until he can return to Lebanon to marry his betrothed and bring her back to the U. S. They start a family and build their business. A fire at his store ruins the building but not his plans. Ultimately, Solomon fulfills… Read More

Albert Whitman & Co., 2004. Reprint 11th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Doris Ettlinger color ilus.. CONDITION: NEW 2004 Albert Whitman paperback, reprint edition, 11th printing. Adorable and historically accurate color illustrations by Doris Ettlinger. CONTENT: On a breezy September morning in 1620, a stray cat prowled the docks, hunting his breakfast. The cat spieda plump mouse. He pounced and missed. When the mouse escaped to a ship, the cat followed, landing on the ship's deck. The ship was called the Mayflower. When young Pilgrim Faith Barrett discovers a stray cat on the Mayflower, she names her new friend Pounce. Together they face the long, cramped voyage and the perils of the first winter at the Plymouth colony. [Really good historical fiction for youngsters. IMHO]