William Steig

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

From Caldecott Medal-winning New Yorker cartoonist William Steig comes a classic puzzle book that will delight young readers as they sound out the coded sentences!

U can read this, S?
S E-Z!

This vibrant and delightful picture book invites little ones to sound out words using the names of letters. Using these gramograms, they can C D B (see the bee) and more!

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

"MIRASOL/libros juveniles"--T.p. of acc. book.

Doctor de Soto

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New York

Crease on back cover but inside pages are clean.

Virginia

In the further adventures of the hero from the Newbery Honor-winning Doctor De Soto, the diminutive dentist is summoned by cablegram to Africa to aid Mudambo, an elephant with an unbearable toothache. Children's Choices for 1993 (IRA/CBC)

Doctor de Soto Goes to Africa

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First edition of the book (1972). Small creases on cover. Light wear on edges. No other flaws 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife--a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures.

Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home.

Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home.

Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again.

Abel's Island is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. It was adapted to a short animated film directed by Michael Sporn in 1988.

Abel's Island

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Indiana

Iowa

On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results.
How Sylvester is eventually reunited with his loving family and restored to his true self makes a story that is beautifully tender and filled with magic. Illustrated with William Steig's glowing pictures, this is a modern classic beloved by children everywhere.
Selected as one of the 100 Best Books of the Century by the National Education Association.

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

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Utah

Tiffky Doofky, garbage collector for the town of Popville, is proud of his calling, and quite a gay dog into the bargain. One fine spring morning, while he's making his rounds, it comes to him that something special is going to happen. Madame Tarsal, the fortuneteller, confirms his hunch and predicts that he will meet his true love that very day--before the sun goes down! "Nothing you can do can keep it from happening," she quacks, and the excited Tiffky kisses her right on the bill. The day turns out to be far from ordinary, but not in the way Tiffky Doofky, or even Madame Tarsal, had expected. A bad-tempered witch is at work here, though she looks just like a harmless old biddy, with her bicycle and red babushka. Tiffky's adventures under her spell take him so far from Popville and so close to sunset that he begins to despair of ever meeting his beloved. He even decides that Madame Tarsal ought to get a new crystal ball. But just as the sun is touching the horizon, Tiffky has his most perilous encounter, and it brings an ending entirely satisfactory to all.

Tiffky Doofky

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From the incomparable William Steig, creator of Shrek, comes a story that proves even a fox can be out-foxed by a clever mouse in Doctor De Soto, a Newbery Honor Book.

"Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain.

Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals--that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for relief from the tooth that's killing him. How can the kindhearted De Sotos turn him away? But how can they make sure that the fox doesn't give in to his baser instincts once his tooth is fixed? Those clever De Sotos will find a way.

Doctor De Soto is a 1982 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1983 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books, and a 1983 Newbery Honor Book.

Made into an animated short film in 1984 by American director and animator Michael Sporn.

Children’s sea-based paperback. Full of images. Great for storytelling or bedtime stories. 
 #paperback #fiction #sea #picturebook #childrensfiction #children #bedtimestories 

New Hampshire

Amos and Boris

Pennsylvania

Abel’s Island

Michigan

"In a text as imaginative and skillful as his extraordinary color illustrations, Steig tells the comic, touching story of Caleb and his wife." --Publishers Weekly "Steig is a superb artist with the literary ingenuity to produce durable, energetic stories." --The Horn Book

Caleb and Kate

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Missouri

Doctor De Soto 

Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home. Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Book. Black-and-white illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

#paperback #children #easyread #fiction #newberyhonor #picturebook 

Massachusetts

Doctor De Soto is so brave…but is it wise for a mouse to treat a fox? #paperback #children #childrens #kids #kidsbooks #childrensstories #scholastic #newberyhonor


Maryland

Abel's Island (3rd Sunburst Edition Printing, 1988)

Very minor wear to edge of book cover. Pages are in excellentcondition. Stored with care. No odors, smoke free home.

North Carolina

Sylvester and the M Megan agic Pebble

#fiction #childrens #children #paperback 

Florida

Yorick Bede has always considered his younger brother, Charles, a first-rate pain in the pants, and Charles thinks the same of Yorick. One day Yorick plays with his alchemist father's potions, and he accidentally shrinks himself to the size of a cockroach. Now suddenly Charles is the big brother. Though it's tempting to leave Yorick as a shrunken version of himself to teach him a lesson, Charles and the rest of the Bede family protect Yorick and tinker with more and more potions until they find the right one to bring back him back to his normal size.

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