Liza Baker

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, a grandmother's love for her grandchild no matter how he feels or what he does.

Grandma Loves You Because You're You

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Lucille Colandro

There was an old lady who swallowed a cake. I don't know why she swallowed a cake. It was a mistake!The Old Lady has swallowed a cake, and a candle, and a sign, and some balloons, and a hat, and some gifts. Can you guess why?Filled with hilarious illustrations and fun rhyming text, this is perfect for young readers looking for a wacky birthday celebration!

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Birthday Cake!

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IglooBooks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Picture Story Book

Journey with Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus with this charming retelling of a traditional Christmas story. A wonderful introduction to the Nativity for young readers, this beautifully illustrated storybook is one for parent and child to treasure at Christmas.

The Nativity

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Fiona Watt

This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

That's Not My Reindeer...

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Jane Yolen

Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways a dinosaur can make her birthday party special, from thanking guests for their gifts to sharing large pieces of cake. Full color.

How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?

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Uni the unicorn

Ann Whitford Paul

Well loved, still has plenty of life to give another child.

Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals kissed like humans do, from a slow kiss between a sloth and her cub to a mud-happy kiss from a hippo calf to his father.

If Animals Kissed Good Night

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

If you give a mouse a cookie 

4 books in total 
3 Daniel tiger stories
1 my little pony story

All new/like new condition. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ready to read / I can read 

Phyllis Root

Well loved, still has plenty of life to give another child

A Book for Babies Everywhere

A baby bird, fish, snake, otter, duck, mouse, and child merrily meet at a pond after being helped by their mamas all morning. On board pages.

Flip, Flap, Fly!

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Seuss

The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.

I Can Read with My Eyes Shut

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Judith S. Levey

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A picture dictionary provides young readers with illustrated definitions, pronunciation guides for each entry, and expanations on how new words are created and how they work in sentences.

Scholastic First Dictionary

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Robert McCloskey

"Robert McCloskey's unusual and stunning pictures have long been a delight for their fun as well as their spirit of place."-The Horn Book

Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get them there through the busy streets of Boston. But with a little help from the Boston police, Mrs. Mallard and Jack, Kack, Lack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack arive safely at their new home.

This brilliantly illustrated, amusingly observed tale of Mallards on the move has won the hearts of generations of readers. Awarded the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children in 1941, it has since become a favorite of millions. This classic tale of the famous Mallard ducks of Boston is available for the first time in a full-sized paperback edition.

Make Way for Ducklings has been described as "one of the merriest picture books ever" (The New York Times). Ideal for reading aloud, this book deserves a place of honor on every child's bookshelf.


"This delightful picture book captures the humor and beauty of one special duckling family.... McClosky's illustrations are brilliant and filled with humor. The details of the ducklings, along with the popular sights of Boston, come across wonderfully. The image of the entire family proudly walking in line is a classic."-The Barnes & Noble Review

"The quaint story of the mallard family's search for the perfect place to hatch ducklings. ... For more than fifty years kids have been entertained by this warm and wonderful story."-Children's Literature

Make Way for Ducklings

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Matt de la Peña

A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things. By the author of the celebrated picture book A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis.

Last Stop on Market Street

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Star crossed

Untamed

Wednesday Martin

A Memoir

"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--

Primates of Park Avenue

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Janelle Brown

A Novel

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

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Kathy Hepinstall

Bought this second hand, has some sticker remnants on the front cover.

“Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother "If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious." --Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors—and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late fifties when Willow was born, so Willow knows she’s here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willow’s father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere. It’s just her and bigger-than-life Polly. Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Polly’s life pre-Willow. Why did she leave her hometown of Bethel, Louisiana, fifty years ago and vow never to return? Who is Garland Jones, her long-ago suitor who possibly killed a man? And will Polly be able to outrun the Bear, the illness that finally puts her on a collision course with her past? The Book of Polly has a great blend of humor and sadness, pathos and hilarity. This is a bittersweet novel about the grip of love in a truly quirky family and you’ll come to know one of the most unforgettable mother-daughter duos you’ve ever met.

The Book of Polly

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Purchased second hand, missing book sleeve and has a sticker on the front of the book.

Missing, presumed

Clea Shearer

Joanna Teplin

The No-Guilt Guide to Owning What You Want and Organizing Everything

"The ... authors of The Home Edit show you how to contain the chaos and organize every aspect of your life, including hobbies and activities, work and office spaces, luggage and travel, and so much more"--

The Home Edit Life

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Michael Seid

Dave Thomas

Written by the late Dave Thomas, the widely known founder of Wendy's, and franchising consultant Michael Seid, this is a comprehensive and reliable resource for anyone interested in purchasing a franchise.

Franchising for Dummies®

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Supper club

Sarah Solomon

The Reluctant Adult's Handbook

Now that you re an 'adult' with a 'job', you re finding things out the hard way, like that spending 9-6 in front of a computer and meetings with a hangover is a tad more difficult than sleeping through your physics lecture. A humorous yet helpful cheat sheet of the realities of life people expected you to know but aren t exactly inherent. Topics range from how you should be saving for retirement now with a diversified portfolio, to modern dating, to career and etiquette advice. Appealing to all genders, it takes on the challenges unique to a generation riddled with debt, living life online.

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