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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780439165709ISBN:0439165709
Description: Good. Size: 7x5x0; Label front cover. Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes. Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood memoir that continues to find its way into the hearts of readers fifty years later. The story is also a personal chronicle of the era of change between the (nearly) untouched ... Read More
Edition: First Edition,
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: RoseDog Books
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780805998825ISBN:0805998829
Description: Like New. Size: 96x4x144; The story of a family's annual trek to the Dinosaur National Monument to hear the elk bugle! This year, the grown-ups give into the pleadings of the youngest child to join the fun. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp
Date published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780834729698ISBN:0834729695
Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. A lovely little work on the life and natural history of the canada goose. Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet. His more than 300 books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear; Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, are a testament to his ability to speak directly to children. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date published: 1904
Description: Fair. Front hinge broken; rear hinge cracked and endpaper laid in. Hence, a reading or rebinding copy. The true first printing of the first edition. Stated, First Impression October 3 1904. Scarce thus. The life story of a grizzly bear. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) was an English-born Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910. Seton ... Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co
Date published: 1956
Description: Good. No dustjacket. An x-library copy. A good reading copy, with usual library markings. The story of the boy Sala, who learns the ways of the hunter from his father and grandfather. Tolboom was a teacher and lived in the Canadian Arctic for five years as her husband established a career with the Hudson's Bay Company. Up north, Wanda started to put pen to paper to capture what life in the Arctic was like. Ultimately, she had six books published, including "Arctic Bride" and "People of the ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Date published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780688042486ISBN:0688042481
Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x6x8; Gift inscription by previous owner. Grade 2-4 This low-key story concerns a boy who secretly helps feed an injured moose near his home in Fairbanks, Alaska. By reading library books, Gerald learns what to feed her and how to interpret some of her gestures. The moose's wound begins to heal, and she gives birth to a calf. Soon the two moose move on, much to Gerald's regret. The text and numerous soft black-and-white pictures nicely convey spring in ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780811819459ISBN:0811819450
Description: Like New. No Dustjacket as Issued. Size: 105x11x148; Spiders, scorpions, and wasps, oh my! The creepiest, crawliest, and hairiest bugs are featured in this amazing collection of 3-D photographs. Tarantulas, millipedes, flies, bumblebees, beetles, and all sorts of other tiny critters loom monstrously into view with fascinating and alarming detail in this foolproof 3-D experience. Complete with lenses innovatively bound into the hardback cover at precisely the right viewing distance (as in the ... Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date published: 1956
Description: Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. "A charming story of a little tree on a snowy mountain top and his parents who help make a special Christmas for young orphaned children." Illustrated by Erwin H Austin. Austin provided design and illustration services to industrial firms, public utilities, and governmental agencies. He combined his love of color and illustration and became a prolific watercolorist in upstate New York. In the 1940s and 1950s, he worked extensively with the New York State ... Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Samuel Lowe Company
Date published: 1944
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book is in Very Good+ condition. The dustjacket has a 2, 3" tears and a small chip missing. Dj in plastic sleeve. Wonderful vintage colors. "Color illustrated stories of three kittens and their daily adventures". Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Date published: 1954
Description: Like New in Good jacket. Bound in blue tweed covers. A vintage, early printing. The Scarlet Slipper Mystery is the thirty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was published in 1954 by Grosset & Dunlap and written by Charles S. Strong under the house pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centrovia who run a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to United States. When they receive ... Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780689803123ISBN:0689803125
Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. Inscribed by the illustrator, "4/20/00 For Kellir Enjoy! Jill Kastner". "Loving the tales of her ancestors, who built a castle in the remote French mountains, Anise listens while her grandfather describes how their relatives were mistaken for dancing stones when seen by distant herdsmen." Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Taos Pueblo Governor's Office
Date published: 1970
Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. Fifty-seven paintings and drawings by twenty-one Taos Indian children from the seventh and eighth grades. Taos Day School is located on the Taos Pueblo Indian Reservation in Northern New Mexico, 3 miles north of the town of Taos. The school serves 170 students in grades kindergarten through the eighth grade. Frank Waters (July 25, 1902-June 3, 1995)[1] was an American writer. He is known for his novels and historical works about the American Southwest. The ... Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Follett Publishing Company
Date published: 1950
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book is in Very Good+ condition. Some light chipping and edgewear to dustjacket. Topics include The Kindergarten Child, Curriculum, The Kindergarten Parent, and Teachers. Scarce in dustjacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Platt and Munk
Date published: 1939
Description: Like New in Good jacket. Some short tears and chipping to dustjacket. Black and White illustrations throughout. Probably a vintage reprint, perhaps from the 1950's. Bound in red cloth and orange decorated endpapers. This edition without color plates. A price of $3.95 on dustjacket flap. Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful "bunny rabbit gentleman" with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Date published: 1897
Description: Good. No Dustjacket. Story of a good little boy and his adventures when his mother must go away for a time. Some pencil notes to endpaper, with some soiling and discoloration in small areas. Overall, a good reading copy of an uncommon children's title. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John C. Winston
Date published: 1952
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book is in Very Good+ condition. Some minor chipping and edgewear to Dustjacket. Stated First Edition; Quite scarce thus. "A warm and human story of a horse that takes an unexpected liking to his gloomy, motorcycle riding, city bred rider; he's a one boy horse with a history". Written for the Juvenile audience. Read More
Description: Like New. No dustjacket. The second printing, published June 1948. Uncommon in early printings. Sterner St. Paul Meek (April 8, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois-June 10, 1972) was an American military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. He was listed among "some of the finest writers of fantasy in the world". Meek published over twenty children's books between 1932 and 1956, starting with Jerry, the Adventures of an Army Dog, usually about dogs or horses. Many of these books ... Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 1932
Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket. A charming tale that tells the life story of a tadpole as he changes to a frog. He makes the acquaintance of insects, newts, lizards, snakes and other creatures, some harmful and some harmless, who inhabit the Blue Pool, is instructed by the Patriarch, the great frog of many Summers, who hints that Wagtail may become Patriarch himself some day. Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887-May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children's books ... Read More
Edition: 5th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. Whitman
Date published: 1946
Description: Like New in Good jacket. This is not an x-library copy, as is more commonly offered. Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka are going wild-strawberry picking. Mother is going to pay them for every basket they gather. They walk and pick until their baskets are overflowing, but soon they are lost, tired, and thirsty. Maj Lindman lived in Stockholm, Sweden. She attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, and also studied art in Paris, France. She wrote and illustrated numerous children's books, but she is ... Read More
