Original watercolor used in the Newbery Honor book, published in 1936 by Viking, with the first appearance of the famous Madeline.

First printing of the winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal winner, an example of Lynd Ward's more delicate brush illustrations.

First printing of "one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples" (Library of Congress) — inscribed by multiple-Pulitzer-winner Carl Sandburg, to whom the book is dedicated.

First printing of the Newbery award-winner, about a 13-year-old Inuit girl lost on the tundra.

First printing of the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King award-winner, with jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon.

First printing of the Newbery Honor book about a turtle's travels from the headwater of the Mississippi River to the Gulf, part of Holling's acclaimed series of geo-historical books.

Scarce first printing of this Newbery Honor, a set of nine biographical vignettes about the itinerant apple planter of US legend.

First printing of the book that helped make science fiction stories for children mainstream, a beautiful copy.

Set of the first UK editions of the first three books in the acclaimed Earthsea series, about a boy who attends a wizard school decades before Harry Potter — the first two books signed by Le Guin.

First US edition of the second Doctor Dolittle book, which finds our animal-conversant hero on a a number of ship-based adventures – winner of the second Newbery Medal ever presented.

First printing of this Newbery Honor-winning collection of 25 stories of beginnings, with vibrant and evocative illustrations by Barry Moser – with autograph note from Virginia Hamilton laid in.

First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793.

First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, warmly inscribed to fellow author Barbara Elleman.