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Publication date: 1967

Review Bad child's book of beasts / Grolier Society:


Review Simon & Schuster (Juv)  / Quiet, Please Creator: Sheila Hamanaka
Publication date: 1993-10
Price: $14.00

Review Quiet, Please / Simon & Schuster (Juv):

Peaceful poetry accompanied by elegant paintings capture life's quiet moments and serene pleasures, such as a starfish spreading its arms or moonlight making a checkerboard on a brick wall.

Edition: Caxton ed
Publication date: 1885

Review Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables: Literally translated from the Greek / Belford, Clarke & Co:


Publication date: 1990-07-10
Price: $10.00

Review Little Animals / Doubleday Publishing:


Publication date: 1879

Review The princess and the goblin / J.B. Lippincott:


Publication date: 2006-05-30
Price: $25.95

Review Hari Butor Wa Sajin Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Naufaul:


Review The man that corrupted Hadleyburg:


Publication date: 1901

Review Nine unlikely tales for children / E.P. Dutton:


Publication date: 1930

Review Alice through the looking glass: And what Alice found there / Albert Whitman & Co:

A unique edition of Through the Looking-Glass, one of the world's best-loved stories, illustrated by Peter Blake, one of the leading figures of Pop art best known for the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Ten fabulous watercolours by Blake accompany the complete text of this classic of children's literature, bringing the story alive for a new generation of readers - and for those who last read it in their childhood. Includes a special 'behind the scenes' interview with Blake, in which the artist discusses the ideas and influences behind his illustrations and reveals his visual sources.

Edition: n.e.
Publication date: 1965-08

Review Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Evergreen Library) / Collins:


Publication date: 1994-12
Price: $44.95

Review Dot and Tot of Merryland / Wonder Publishing:

Her real name is Evangeline Josephine Freeland - but she has had the nickname Dot since before she can remember, and never calls herself anything else. Dot has free run of Roselawn, a country estate her father bought in hopes the outdoor life will restore her health. And run freely is exactly what she does, day after day, with ever greater spring to her steps, and with ever greater appetite. One morning, finishing her breakfast and scampering out upon the Lawn, Dot notices a tiny path leading through a high, thick hedge. "I'll explore!" she says to herself, and scoots herself through. to behold a tiny vine-covered cottage, and, on the path leading to it, a little boy with a broad-brimmed straw hat. The boy is the gardener's son, Tot - who proves a wonderful playmate from the start. [+]
and a fine partner in adventures: for the two are swept away on a boat, and find themselves casting up in a strange place they never knew existed - Merryland!.

Edition: Bk&Csst
Publication date: 1994-10
List Price: $7.98
Price: $99.99

Review The Magic School Bus: Experiments, Coloring, Puzzles&More/Book and Cassette (Fun With Sound) / Kidsreads.com:


Publication date: 1910

Review A child's garden of verse (The Editha series for little girls) / H.M. Caldwell Co:


Creator: Eloise Wilkin
Edition: 8th Printing
Publication date: 1971

Review Birds, A Child's First Book About Our Most Familiar Birds (A Big Golden Book) / Western Publishing Company:


Review Egmont Books Ltd  / Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (Children of the Red King) Publication date: 2007-06-04

Review Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (Children of the Red King) / Egmont Books Ltd:


Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1988-09
Price: $17.50

Review The Mysterious Mr. Ross (Lythway Large Print Children's Series) / Chivers North America:

The mysterious Albert Ross, whom twelve-year-old Felicity saves from drowning on the dangerous seacoast where she lives, appears to be either an exotic world traveler or a fearsome liar, and he ultimately changes the lives of those who seek the truth about him.

Publication date: 1933

Review Safety can be fun; / Lippincott:

All around you, you can find different kinds of Nit-Wits, ones who bounce on beds, climb all over the place, stand on car seats, touch hot stoves, or follow dumb dares, and many others.

Creator: B.J. Bedford
Edition: Read by David Thorn
Publication date: 2007-01-15
List Price: $15.00
Price: $99.99

Review Just So Stories-Complete and Unabridged / Alcazar AudioWorks:

Utterly charming and entertaining. Stories Include: How the Whale Got His Throat;How the Camel Got Its Hump;How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin;How the Leopard Gots its Spots; The Elephant's Child;The sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo;The Beginning of the Armadillos;How the First Letter was Written; How the Alphabet was made: The Crab that Played with the Sea;The Cat that Walked by Himself; The Butterfly that Stamped.

Review Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)  / Carl's Baby Journal Publication date: 1996-04
Price: $10.95

Review Carl's Baby Journal / Farrar Straus & Giroux (J):

A keepsake book features the lovable rottweiler Carl and his infant mistress and provides spaces for imprinting hand and foot prints, storing a lock of hair, securing photographs, and recording important milestones.

Publication date: 2001-07
Price: $26.85

Review Childs Garden of Verses-Facsim / Topeka Bindery:


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Bad child's book of beasts, Quiet, Please, Three hundred and fifty Aesop's fables: Literally translated from the Greek, Little Animals, The princess and the goblin, Hari Butor Wa Sajin Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, Nine unlikely tales for children, Alice through the looking glass: And what Alice found there, Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Evergreen Library), Dot and Tot of Merryland, The Magic School Bus: Experiments, Coloring, Puzzles&More/Book and Cassette (Fun With Sound), A child's garden of verse (The Editha series for little girls), Birds, A Child's First Book About Our Most Familiar Birds (A Big Golden Book), Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (Children of the Red King), The Mysterious Mr. Ross (Lythway Large Print Children's Series), Safety can be fun;, Just So Stories-Complete and Unabridged, Carl's Baby Journal, Childs Garden of Verses-Facsim

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