BABY'S BOOK
First edition of this beautiful book of rhymes and simple stories for very young children, vividly illustrated in Attwell's characteristic style.
First edition of this beautiful book of rhymes and simple stories for very young children, vividly illustrated in Attwell's characteristic style.
Scarce inscribed first edition of this lively rodent Western, written and illustrated by the sister of artist Wanda Gág.
Signed second printing of this collaboration between the eminent folklorist and the beloved children's artist, signed by Wells and with a signed bookplate from Opie laid in.
Doubly inscribed first edition of this energetic rhyming ABC, full of vividly illustrated city-dwellers dressed in mercilessly depicted high mid-90s style.
Inscribed first edition of this rhyming picture book for very young children, following a ladybug and a turtle in a hot-air balloon ride around the world.
First edition of this collection of Tudor's holiday-themed stories, first published as three separate books in 1941, 1950, and 1938.
Signed early printing of Tudor's charming illustrated counting book for young children, a Caldecott Honor book.
Signed later printing of Zolotow's classic 1962 children's story, with original signature by Sendak, whose eerie illustrations made this one of the seven Caldecott Honor Books of his career.
Signed first edition of this time-travel balloon adventure for the early grades, with an appended technical diagram and a Brief History of Hot Air Ballooning from the Montgolfier brothers to the present day.
First printing of the fourth Eloise book — inscribed by beloved illustrator Hilary Knight — in which Eloise gets tired of caviar and fails to thaw the icy hearts of suspicious Muscovites.
First edition of Eloise's whirlwind tour of Paris (that's Paris, France) from promenading up the Champs-Elysées to St.-Germain for a salade niçoise, and on to M. Dior for an "absolutely chic" dress.
Signed early printing of Zolotow's classic 1962 children's story, with original signature by Sendak, whose eerie illustrations made this one of the seven Caldecott Honor Books of his career.
First US edition of these retold Canadian fairy tales with French and English origins, beautifully illustrated by Canadian artist Gál.
First edition of this collaboration between the noted children's poet and the Caldecott Award-winning illustrator, based on both artists' individual trips to China.
Inscribed later printing of this children's nonfiction picture book on the Audubon Society's Puffin Project successes in coastal Maine.
Signed later printing of this Alaskan installment of the Imagine Living Here series, inscribed by Alaskan illustrator Lavallee with accompanying thematic drawing.
Signed first edition of the second English countryside mystery solved by Piggins the butler.
Inscribed later printing of Lavallee's most renowned picture book, set in the Arctic and including a glossary guide to Inuit life and culture.
Inscribed first edition of this emotional roller-coaster story inspired by the loss and refinding of a real cat, by the Anchorage-based author and illustrator.
Signed first edition of Franklin's fish story, set in an unnamed Pacific Northwestern locale, inscribed by illustrator Lavallee with an original drawing.
Inscribed first edition of this educational picture book introducing children to sign language systems, semaphore, pictograms, international symbols, and other ways of communicating without the spoken word.
First edition of this eerie illustrated retelling of Scottish folklore regarding the dark deeds of egg-stealing witches out to persecute honest sailors.
First US edition of Mayer's retelling of the Norse myth, adapted from the Prose Edda and beautifully illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Scarce inscribed copy of this charming self-published picture book, illustrated by (presumably) the author in a striking style midway between Kate Greenaway and Henry Darger.
Signed first edition of this historical children's book set on a 19th-century Dakota homestead, with the illustrator's scarce signature.