Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Centuries of traditional wisdom are collected in this delightful volume. Each beautifully illustrated proverb, appears in both English and Chinese. This book is a lasting treasure from a culture, rich in advice and thought.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

In the best-selling tradition of Jewish Proverbs, this charming little book gathers centuries of Chinese wisdom in a delightful and unique bilingual format. Each illustrated proverb is accompanied by its corresponding Chinese characters. Timed to coincide with Chinese New Year on February 4th, this handsome book is a year-round gift, a winning souvenir of any city's Chinatown, and a useful addition to bilingual classrooms and libraries.

Chinese Proverbs

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New Mexico

Edward Lear

Poetry for Young People 

great gift for the golf lover in your life … think Father’s Day!

A Clubhouse Companion

The Golf Quotation Book

Wonderful book in new condition Edition 2006. Great if you like cooking with wine or what wine to drink if you are having a dish. #Wine #Cooking #Recipes #Food #Pictorial #140DeliciousRecipes #what-Wine-To-Have-WithDifferentDishes #CookingWithWine #Cartoonist #Illustrations 



Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

The Great Wine Pyramid

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Gail Page

Ohio

Visit Gail's website Bobo really wants to be a good dog. It's just that being good takes so much effort. When his owner finally has enough and sends him packing, it's silent Cat who misses him the most. Armed with a how-to book and quiet determination, Cat begins to instruct Bobo in proper dog etiquette. Shake, fetch, and roll over all go well. But can Cat really turn this incorrigible canine around? Drenched in cotton-candy colors and brimming with whimsical details, Bobo proves a fact all dog lovers know: nobody can resist a good dog, even when he's bad! Reviews "Bobo, the great galumphing hound in Gail Page's How to Be a Good Dog is the canine Oscar Madison. . . .Pale and plump with a single black spot, Bobo has a Thurber-esque squishiness in Page's cartoonlike acrylics. His eyes are never more than two tiny dots, but they're endlessly expressive. How the author accomplishes this I can't say. But it seems to be an unwritten law that in the world of children's books, the larger the dog, the smaller the eyes, and vise versa." -New York Times Book Review, children's feature issue "The pictures [in this book] are pleasing and, to my eye, beautiful. At the same time, they're genuinely funny. This, to me, is the best thing possible. And it's hard to do."---Daniel Pinkwater on NPR's Weekend Edition, Saturday, Feb 11th. To read more on the How to Be a Good Dog feature, click here. "The quirky humor in the brief text is matched by the funny antics of the floppy canine in the illustrations as he tries to be a good dog, but always in his own way." -Kirkus Reviews "This lively tale of a good-hearted canine and his kindly cat friend gets its charm from its bold and colorful illustrations...But it is the story, told in plain, simple, unembellished words that any child can understand, that grabs your heart and won't let go." -Curled Up With A Good Book "The large acrylic paintings with cartoon figures and the simp

How to Be a Good Dog

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Correspondence

Everyone knows 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. And who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids and finally the full percussion section of the Liverpoool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas?


The Twelve Days of Christmas

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#hardcover #children #nature #education #illustrations #beautiful

Arizona

With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations, and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.



As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures--squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls--who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a foldout page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.



Beautiful and evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.



A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)

It Starts with a Seed

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New York

DC SUPER FRIENDS

Rescue at the City Zoo

Dugald A. Steer

Michigan

Monsters

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The Art of the Female Orgasm

Cattrall teams up with her husband in this how-to sex book, based on viewer feedback from her TV show, Sex and the City, and designed to help couples focus on achieving the female orgasm.

Satisfaction

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Book is in excellent condition and is as pictured, but has no dust jacket.

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An Animal Alphabet

Open the pages of this lively book and discover a bowl of animal alphabet soup sure to spark children's imaginations. From the tiny ant on the front endpapers to the exuberant zebra in the final spread, children will delight in the mischievous menagerie that bursts onto the table, while at the same time learning their letters and animals. Filled with imaginative details, it is a visual feast from start to finish.

Zoopa

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You'd think that a penguin stranded on an ever-smaller block of ice, on a trip around the world wouldn't be so.FUN! But it is! There's our fearless penguin passing the gondolas of Venice.there's penguin floating by the Sydney Opera House! From the Aurora Borealis to a hilarious encounter with a surfer in Hawaii, this is a wordless journey that truly FROLICKS. In fact, the adventures are so amusing that most readers will barely register the nod to global warming until it's slipped right in on the breath of a laugh.

Bye, Penguin!

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Texas

The Founding Fathers 

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words 

This is by Anna Sewell Treasury Of Illustrated Classics. Pages are yellow but spine intact, no dog ears

Black Beauty Illustrated Classic

Phillip Katcher

Awesome book for Civil War buffs, jam packed with great facts, illustrations, maps, photographs and more.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The hardcover reference titles in the Day by Day series examine the evolution of wars in a chronological timeline, from the first skirmish to the last battle and everything in between. These books are a historical companion to each major war in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The fate of soldiers, battalions, armies, can change in the blink of an eye--with this comprehensive book readers can follow the conflicting sides in their strategy, weaponry, and policies.

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, claiming the lives of over 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865. The Civil War Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month approach to the conflict, allowing the reader to see at a glance the key battles on land and at sea; bloody engagements such as the First Bull Run, Antietam, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of contemporary photographs and illustrations, this book also includes full-color maps of all the major battles and campaigns of the war. Each chapter contains boxes on the weapons that were used by both sides in the war, and the tactics that were employed on the battlefield.

The Civil War Day by Day

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Matt Sewell

Connecticut

Our Most Charming Bird

An enchanting illustrated guide to owl species of the world.

The owl is one of nature's most captivating creatures. In this enchanting guide, artist Matt Sewell brings to life fifty species from around the world. From the adorable Eurasian Pygmy Owl, small enough to fit in your pocket, to the Great Gray Owl, celebrated for its size and elegance--these charming illustrations are sure to delight anyone intrigued by these wise and wonderful animals.

Owls

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Deborah Diesen

Oregon

As the pout-pout fish swims along in the ocean, he discovers that being glum and spreading the "dreary wearies" isn't much fun anymore--especially when his true destiny is revealed!

The Pout-Pout Fish

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Shelley Tanaka

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Picture Book

Uses the discovery of the temple in Mexico City, what was once the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, to introduce the story of the Spanish conquest of Moctezuma and his empire in the sixteenth century.

The Lost Temple of the Aztecs

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#hardcover #childrens #Bible #illustrations 

The story of a family's search for a treasure serves to introduce the treasure of God's Word in stories from the Bible.

The Amazing Treasure Bible Storybook

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Collection of Christmas stories with illustrations. Old library copy with writing and stamps (see photos).

A Collection

Once Upon a Christmas

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Illinois

Good Boy, Fergus!

New Jersey

Funny twist on the classic tale, with die-cut holes and felt teeth!

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly . . . But in this book, the animals are hungry too, and they start eating the old lady's clothes! Adults and children alike will enjoy this hilarious rhyming twist on the well-loved tale.

The book has die-cut holes with felt teeth on every page, so children can put their hands through the mouths to mimic feeding the creatures. Fun illustrations bring the rhyme to life in this unique book.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

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Purchased new, read once and loved the humor and short stories #PaperBackFiction #HilariousAccounts #LikeTrueStories #ShortStories #Illustrations #IceCreamWar #OldManAndTheFamily #MadnessMysteyMayhem #AFistfulOfNewtons #JeanSheherd

From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.

Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor-like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans. A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd-sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life-all of them delivered in Jean Shepherd's witty, classy, unforgettable style.

A Fistful of Fig Newtons

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Marcia Thornton Jones

Debbie Dadey

Virginia

Mrs. Jeepers may -- or may not -- be a vampire in this funny and spooky series from Graphix Chapters.

Get drawn into reading with Graphix Chapters!

Graphix Chapters are ideal books for beginning and newly independent readers aged 6-8. With approachable page counts, easy-to-follow paneling, and artwork that supports text comprehension, these engaging stories with unforgettable characters help children become lifelong readers.

The third graders at Bailey Elementary are so hard to handle that all of their teachers have quit. But their new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers, is different -- to say the least. She's just moved from Transylvania into a spooky old house in Bailey City. She wears a mysterious brooch that glows as green as her eyes. Could Mrs. Jeepers be a vampire?

Featuring a beloved story by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey and fresh artwork by Academy Award winner Pearl Low, Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots is the first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Scholastic's classic chapter book series.

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Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese Proverbs

Edward Mendelson

Poetry for Young People

edited by Michael Hobbs

The Golf Quotation Book

John Rudy; Shari Rudy

The Great Wine Pyramid

Gail Page

How to Be a Good Dog

Quentin Blake (Illustrator); John Julius Norwich

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Laura Knowles; Jennie Webber (Illustrator)

It Starts with a Seed

J.E.Bright

Rescue at the City Zoo

Dugald A. Steer

Monsters

Kim Cattrall; Mark Levinson; Fritz Drury (Illustrator)

Satisfaction

Gianna Marino

Zoopa

Seou Lee

Bye, Penguin!

James Bishop Peabody

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty Illustrated Classic

Phillip Katcher

The Civil War Day by Day

Matt Sewell

Owls

Deborah Diesen

The Pout-Pout Fish

Shelley Tanaka

The Lost Temple of the Aztecs

Christie Bowler

The Amazing Treasure Bible Storybook

Pearl S. Buck

Once Upon a Christmas

David Shannon

Good Boy, Fergus!

Rosie Greening

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Jean Shepherd

A Fistful of Fig Newtons

Marcia Thornton Jones; Debbie Dadey

Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Graphic Novel #1)