USED OR OUT-OF-PRINT EASY-TO-READ BOOKS
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All books are paper unless otherwise stated.
 Am
I Beautiful? by Else Minarik / ill. by Yossi Abolafia. Hardcover WRBC
edition. Themes (1) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (2) Mothers think their own
babies are the most beautiful in the world. Young Hippo wants to find out if he is
beautiful when he is out for a walk and hears all the mothers he passes tell their babies
that they are the most beautiful in the world. He asks each one "Am I beautiful,
too?" But they all pass the buck, saying they can only judge their own kind. It takes
his own mother to settle the question. $9.50-U (A)
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Amazing Rescues, Step into Reading, Step 3. Exciting true-life
adventure stories. Like new. 1.50 (A)
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry
Street by Dr. Seuss. Hardcover, fair condition. BCE. Tear at top of FFEP.
Scribbling in pencil on front cover and a couple of pages. Worn at edges and corners of
cover. $2.50-U (A)
Animal Families: based on a
text by Ann Weil. Children's Press, 1956. Hardcover, no jacket. Fair. Lightly
soiled with use inside and out. Some writing on pages 6 and 7. Library discard with usual
flaws. Previous owner name and stamp on FFEP. Many pages have small tears or creases near
edges. Reading copy. Illustrated by Roger Vernam. Each double-page spread introduces one
family of animals with names for Male, Female, and baby, a full-color picture, and some
B/W pictures, and a few words about the animal's importance or characteristics. The print
is large and bold with lots of white space. BT#2277. $10.00-U (B)
Arthur's Honey Bear by
Lillian Hoban. An I-Can-Read book. Hardccover library discard with protected jacket.
Library markings and moderate wear. BT#2267. $5.50 (A)
Bargain for Frances, by
Russell Hoban. Library binding, library discard, ffep torn out. Jacket covered. Fair
condition. 3.00 (B)
The Bears' Vacation, by Stan and Jan
Berenstain. Library discard, hardcover, coming loose inside at spine, but still intact.
Book is very worn out on cover, but is still a good reading copy. No jacket. 2.00 (B)
Case of the Dumb Bells, by Crosby Bonsall.
Library binding, library discard. Cover protected. Good condition. Easy to read mystery.
4.00 (B)
Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Hardcover,
BCE, fair condition. Spine reinforced with tape. Corners and ends of spine very worn.
$2.50-U (A)
Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Hardcover,
BCE, fair condition. Spine reinforced with tape. Corners and ends of spine very worn.
$2.50-U (A)
Clara and the Bookwagon, by Nancy
Levinson. An "I Can Read Book," Level 3. Clara wants to learn to read, but Pa
doesn't see the sense in it when there is so much work to do on the farm. It takes the
book wagon librarian's help to convince Pa to let Clara borrow a book. Almost new
condition. 2.00 (A) SP
Curious George Flies a Kite, by Margret
Rey. Library discard, library binding. Good condition except for small hole torn in middle
of one of the pages, but it does not destroy any words of text. 5.00 (B) Now at auction at
E-Bay
Fixed by Camel by
Jacquellyn Reinach , hardcover, Weekly Reader Books Edition, larger size. Moderate wear on
the edges and corners. The back end papers have separated from each other at the hinge,
exposing the backbone, but this could be reinforced easily. Page block is intact.
There is a small but deep scratch in the back cover, and a few stray crayon or
marker marks on the cover. $10.00-U (A)
Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss. Grolier Book Club
edition, hardcover, like new. 4.00. (A)
Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss. Grolier Book Club
edition, hardcover, very good. 3.00 (A)
Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss. Regular Random House hardcover
edition with jacket. 1965 edition. Age spots on end papers, outer cover, and dust jacket.
Bottom corners of cover worn to boards . Otherwise, book is in pretty good condition. 5.00
(B)
Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel. Hardcover, book club
edition. Appears to be a food smear on last page of text. Otherwise, in very good
condition. 5.00 (A) SP
Hattie Rabbit by Dick Gackenback. An Early I Can Read
Book. Weekly Reader hardcover edition. OP. Very good condition. Young Hattie Rabbit learns
some lessons in human relations and appreciating others as they are in these stories for
beginning readers. BT#1321. $7.50-U (A)
Iglook's Seal, by Bernard Wiseman.
Hardcover, pictorial boards. Iglook the Eskimo boy goes seal hunting with his father. But
he cannot bear to throw his harpoon at the cute baby seal his father wanted him to kill.
Instead, he brings it home to keep for a pet, and he catches fish for it everyday whenever
his father goes out to hunt for the family's food. In the end, the seal earns his keep.
Weekly Reader Book Club edition. A little worn at edges and corners. Otherwise in good
condition. $5.00 (A)
Little Chick's Story, by Mary
Kwitz. An Early I Can Read Book. OP. Hardcover, worn on corners and at ends of spine.
Large brown crayon mark on front cover. Blue ink spots on front end papers. Still a good
reading copy with no scribbling or writing on text pages inside.Broody Hen tells Little
Chick that she will grow up and have chicks of her own someday. 4.00 (A)
No Kicks for Dog by Richard Hefter. Part
of the Sweet Pickles series, smaller format (about the size of a Little Golden Book). The cover is in bad shape, with very worn edges and corners and some stains, and
there are some stains on the inside as well and the previous owner's name is written on
the title page in the space provided. First few pages have wrinkle down the middle.
The corner tip is cut off the front end paper. Hardcover, no jacket. $2.00-U (A)
Nutcracker Ballet, retold by Deborah
Hautzig. Step into Reading Step 2, grades 1-3. Good condition. 2.75 (A)
Oscar Otter, by Nathaniel Benchley. An I
Can Read Book. Library Binding, library discard, protected jacket. Good reading copy. One
of my favorite stories on the importance of obedience. 3.00 (B)
 Someone's Trying
to Cut Off My Head by Rob Portlock. InterVarsity, paper, 1992, first
edition. Unpaginated. Max's parents announce that this is his big day. They dress him up
in his best sweater and take him to the barber for his first haircut. When he sees the
barber shop and all it paraphernalia, he is apprehensive, but when the barber asks if he
should just cut the top off, Max's imagination runs away with him and time stands still as
he runs out the door. After an adventure with a fire truck and the old clock in the tower,
he is ready to come back in the the barber, for the old clock has explained that the
barber will only cut his hair, not his head, off. Read to ages 3-7. Ages 7-8 will probably
be able to read for themselves. Condition: New book that has suffered a bit from storage
and display. There is light wear to the edges and corners and the ends of the covers curl
out a bit rather than lying flat against book.
Click image to enlarge and see more detail. BT-2847. $9.99-U (A)
Stories from Japan by Edward W. and
Marguerite Dolch. Garrard, hardcover, library discard. Pretty good condition. Twenty
easy-to-read folktales from Japan, illustrated with watercolor paintings. Great for
primary beginning readers. Corners and top edge bumped. Back end papers separating at
hinge. Yellow illustrated boards show light soiling, as do end papers and edges. Library
markings in book, but not on spine. There was no pocket or date slip. Cover worn to boards
at corners and there are some small holes in surface of front cover, one of which exposes
the board. There may be other defects more minor than these I have not noted. $10.00-U (B)
Toby's Friends by Laura Bannom. Albert Whitman
and Co., 1963. Hardcover, no jacket.. When Toby is lonesome and tells Grandpa he'd like to
play with one of his friends, Grandpa tries to guess which one. Grandpa suggests many of
Toby's animal friends in a half serious manner, and Toby always has a come-back indicating
he knows whom Grandpa's thinking of and it isn't that one. When Grandpa finally gives up
guessing, Toby reveals it's his human friend Mike and that Grandpa knew all along and was
just pretending not to know. The end shows their great affection for one another.
Condition is good. The Illustration on the front cover is pasted on. End papers are
illustrated with same style of art. Owner name is on ffep -- both sides. Part of front
cover illustration has worn off. The cover has moderate edge and corner wear. Cracks
between end papers in front and back could be smoother. And many pages show evidence
of having little not always clean hands turning them. Very small tear is on bottom edge of
rfep. Still a good reading copy with all pages intact. BT#2331. A$9.50-U (A)
 What a Trip: A
Bring-it-All-Together Book by Foster and Erickson. Barron's 1994. Trade
paper. Almost like new condition. Part of Set 2 in the
Get Ready, Get Set, Read! series.
BT-3245. $2.00-U (A)
Whitey's New Saddle, written and
illustrated by Glen Rounds. Rebound library discard with hard reinforced illustrated
cover. Good sturdy reading copy with some stains on first few pages. Based on two previous
stories: "Whitey and the Rustlers" and "Whitey and the Blizzard." OP,
8.00 (B)
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