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BT-2772.jpg (18582 bytes)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)

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)

 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. 4.00 (A)

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)

Nutcracker Ballet, retold by Deborah Hautzig. Step into Reading Step 2, grades 1-3. Good condition. 2.75 (A)

 

 

BT-2847.jpg (38568 bytes)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) Missing

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)

 

 

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