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Books from the 1980s
(Sorted by copyright date of Illustrations. Click on image to see sample pages)

*** Caldecott Winner         * Caldecott Honor         *** Newbery Winner      
                                            

1980

 

***Fables
by Arnold Lobel

c. 1980
Thomas Y. Crowell

 

 

The Crocodiles 
Still Wait
by Carol Carrick
Pictures 
by Donald Carrick
 

c. 1980
Houghton Mifflin/Clarion

Space Case
by Edward Marshall
Pictures by James Marshall

c. 1980
The Dial Press
First Printing


Henry's Awful
Mistake
by Robert Quackenbush

c. 1980
Parent's Magazine Press

 

The Shopping
Basket
by John Burningham

c. 1980
Thomas Y. Crowell

 

 



Wales' Tale
by Susan Saunders
Illustrated by Marilyn Hirsh

c. 1980
The Viking Press
First Edition


Harry's Song
by Lillian Hoban

c. 1980
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

The Last Puppy
by Frank Asch

c. 1980
Simon and Schuster




The Runaway Road
by Stan Mack

c. 1980
Parents Magazine Press
First Edition


The Day Jimmy's
Boa Ate the Wash
by Trinla Hakes Noble
Pictures by Steven Kellogg

c. 1980
The Dial Press

 

 

 

Emma
by Wendy Kesselman
Illustrated by 
Barbara Cooney

c. 1980
Barbara Cooney

 

Another Mouse to Feed
by Robert Kraus
Pictures by Jose Aruego
& Ariane Dewey

c.1980
Simon and Schuster

 

Coming Soon
Gila monsters meet you at the airport
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
pictures by Byron Barton

c. 1980
Macmillan Publishers Co.
First Edition

 

The Bear Who Slept
Through Christmas
by John Barrett
Illustrations by
Rick Reinert Productions

c.. 1980
Ideals Publications Corp.

 

Applebaums
Have a Robot!
by Jane Thayer
Illustrated by
 Bari Weissman

c. 1980
William Morrow and Co.
First Edition

 






Through 
Grandpa's Eyes
by Patricia MacLachlan
Pictures by 
Deborah Kogan Ray

c. 1980
Harper & Row Publishers


Follow the River
by Lydia Dabcovick

c. 1980
 E. P. Dutton
 First Edition

 

The Lonely
Skyscraper
by Jenny Hawkesworth
Illustrated by
Emanuel Schongut

c. 1980
Doubleday & Co.

 

Mine Will,
Said John
by Helen V. Griffith
pictures by
Muriel Batherman

1980
Greenwillow Books

 

Positively 
No Pets Allowed
by Nathan Zimelman
Illustrated 
by Pamela Johnson

c. 1980
E. P. Dutton
First Edition

 



The Fox with
Cold Feet
by Bill Singer
Pictures by Dennis Kendrick

c. 1980
Parent's magazine Press
First Edition

 

Gregory,
The Terrible Eater
by Mitchell Sharmat
Illustrated by Jose Aruego
and Araine Dewey

c. 1980
Macmillan/
Four Winds Press

 

Coming Soon
Gorky Rises
by William Steig

c. 1980
Farrar, Straus  and Giroux

 

 

A Bird Can Fly
by Douglas Florian

c. 1980
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

 

Howard
by James Stevenson

c. 1980
Greenwillow Books
First Edition


 



Perfect the Pig
by Susan Jeschke

c. 1980
Henry Holt and Co.


 

The Mystery of the
Flying Orange Pumpkin
Story and Pictures
by Steven Kellogg

c. 1980
Dial Press


On Sunday 
the Wind Came
by Alan C. Elliot
Illustrated 
by Susan Bonners

c. 1980
William Morrow and Co.
First Edition

 

Your Pet Bear
by Bobby Hamas
Illustrations 
by Tom Dunnington

c. 1980
Children's Press


1981
 


 

 

***Jumanji 
Written and Illustrated
by Chris Van Allsburg

c. 1981
Houghton Mifflin Co.

 

 

*Where the 
Buffaloes Begin
by Olaf Baker
Pictures by
 Stephen Gammell

c. 1981
Viking Penguin

 

*Outside 
Over There
by Maurice Sendak

c. 1981
HarperCollins Pub.

 

 

*** * A Visit to    
William Blake's
 Inn
by Nancy Willard
Illustrated by Alice and 
Martin Provensen

c. 1981, 1980
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Ben and 
the Porcupine
by Carol Carrick
pictures 
by Donald Carrick

c.1981
Houghton Mifflin/Clarion

 




Timothy
Goes to School
Story and Pictures
by Rosemary Wells

c. 1981
The Dial Press

Little Peep
by Jack Kent

c. 1981
Prentice-Hall, Inc



The Amazing Pig
An old Hungarian Tale 
Retold and Illustrated 
by Paul Galdone

c. 1981
Houghton MIfflin/
Clarion

 

Herbie's Troubles
by Carol Chapman
Illustrated by Kelly Oechsli

c. 1981
E. P. Dutton
First Edition


The Beast with a Thousand Teeth
by Terry Jones
Illustrated by
Michael Foreman

c. 1981
Peter Bedrick Books
First Edition




 


There's a Party 
at Mona's Tonight
by Harry Allard
Illustrated by
James Marshall

c. 1981
Doubleday & Co.
First Edition

 

Bringing the Rain
to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema
Pictures by Beatriz Vidal

c. 1981
Dial Books for 
Young Readers

 

Chicken 
at the Window 
Written and Illustrated 
by Karen Ann Weinhaus

c. 1981
Peachtree Publishers



The Stupids Die
Story by Harry Allard
Pictures by James Marshall

c. 1981
Houghton Mifflin Co.


 

Clara Joins 
the Circus
by Michael Pellowski
Pictures by True Kelley

c. 1981
Parents Magazine Press

 

 

 

One Zillion
Valentines
by Frank Modell

c. 1981
Greenwillow Books

 

Coming Soon
This Farm is a Mess
by Leslie McGuire

c. 1981
Parent's Magazine Press

 

Coming Soon
Jump, Frog, Jump!
by Robert Kalan
Pictures by Byron Barton

c. 1981
Greenwillow  Books

 

McGoogan Moves
the Mighty Rock
by Patience Brewster

c. 1981
Harper and Row
First Edition

 

Ellsworth
and the
Cats from Mars
by Patience Brewster

c. 1981
Houghton Mifflin/Clarion

 

 

 

 

Regards To the
Man in the Moon
by Ezra Jack Keats

c. 1981
Macmillan Pub. Co.

 

Groundhogs Day
at the Doctor
Story by Judy Delton
Pictures by Giulio Maestro

c. 1981
Parent's Magazine Press

 

Coming Soon
 Ernest and Celestine
 by Gabrielle Vincent

c. 1981
Greenwillow

 

Coming Soon
 Hot-Air Henry
 by Mary Caloun
Illustrated 
by Erick Ingraham

c. 1981
William Morrow

 

Isadora
by Jody Silver

c. 1981
Doubleday & Co.

 

 

 


A Rose for 
Pinkerton
Story and Pictures 
by Steven Kellogg

c. 1981
Dial


Building a House
by Byron Barton

c. 1981
Greenwillow Books
First Edition


Dancing Turtles
Adapted from an
American Folk Tale
by Maggie Duff
Illustrated by
Maria Horvath

c. 1981
Macmillan Publishing Co.
First Edition

Bread and Honey
A Frank Asch Bear Story

c. 1981
Parents Magazine Press

 

 

Golly Gump
Swallowed a Fly
by Joanna Cole
Pictures by Bari Weissman

c. 1981
Parent's Magazine Press

 

Wide-Awake
Timothy
by Joyce Wakefield
Illustrated 
by Tom Dunnington

c. 1981
Children's Press

 

The Biggest Shadow
 in the Zoo
by Jack Kent

c. 1981
Parents Magazine Press

 

Coming Soon
 Nedobeck's 
Alphabet Book
 by Don Nedobeck

c. 1981
Children's Press

 

1982

***Shadow
Translated and Illustrated
by Marcia Brown

c. 1982
E. P. Dutton

 

 

*When I Was
 Young in the Mountains
by Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by Diane Goode

c. 1982
E. P. Dutton


The Monster
and the Tailor
A Ghost Story 
Retold and Illustrated 
by Paul Galdone

c. 1982
Clarion Books


Doctor De Soto
by William Steig

c. 1982
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Scholastic paperback


 

Henry and the 
Red Stripes
Story and Pictures
 by Eileen Christelow

c. 1982
Clarion

 

 

Coming Soon
Let's Make Rabbits
A fable by Leo Lionni

c. 1982
Pantheon Books
First Edition

 

Henry
Goes West
by Robert Quackenbush

c. 1982
Parents Magazine Press

 

Coming Soon
Follow the Leader
by Jacquie Hann

c. 1982
Crown
First Edition

 

Round Robin
by Jack Kent

c. 1982
Prentice-Hall

 

Coming Soon
Catch the Ball
by Eric Carle

c. 1982
Scholastic

 

 

Mary's Mirror
by Jim Ainsworth
Illustrated by Richard Egielski

c. 1982
Hot-Rinehart and Winston

 

Coming Soon
The Do-Something Day

c. 1982


Coming Soon
PeterSpier's
Rain

c. 1982
Doubleday & Company. Inc.

 

Coming Soon
Let's Paint a 
Rainbow
by Eric Carle

c. 1982

 

Miss Rumphius
Story and Pictures 
by Barbara Cooney

c. 1982
Viking Penguin
Trumpet Club paperback

 

 


Coming Soon
Snow Lion
by David McPhail

c. 1982

 

 

1 Hunter
by Pat Hutchins

c. 1982
Greenwillow Books
First Edition
 

 

Annie and the 
Mud Monster
by Dick Gackenbach

c. 1982
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition

 

Coming Soon
Bernard
by Bernard Waber

c. 1982
Houghton Mifflin


Coming Soon
The Three Little Kittens
Pictures 
by Lorinda Bryan Cauley

c. 1982

 






Happy Birthday,
Moon
by Frank Asch

c. 1982
Prentice-Hall, Inc.


What's in 
Fox's Sack?
by Paul Galdone

c. 1982
Clarion Books

 

The Cobbler's
Song

a fable adapted 
and illustrated
by Marcia Sewall

c. 1982
E. P. Dutton
First edition 

 

The Bicycle
 Man
by Allen Say

c. 1982
Houghton Mifflin Co. 



Stega Nona's
Magic Lessons

Story and Pictures
 by Tomie de Paola

c. 1982
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Scholastic Edition

 

 

 

The Big Bunny and
the Easter Eggs
by Steven Kroll
Illustrated 
by Janet Stevens

c. 1982
Holiday House

 

Eulalie and the
Hopping Head
 by David Small

c. 1982
     Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
   First Edition
   First Book by this Caldecott  Winning Author/Illustrator

Ming Lo Moves
 the Mountain
by Arnold Lobel

c. 1982
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

Miss Nelson
is Back
Harry Allard
James Marshall

c. 1982
Houghton Mifflin Co.

 

 

 


I Dance in My
Red Pajamas
by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Pictures 
by Emily Arnold McCully

c. 1982
Harper & Row, Publishers
First Edition


'

Rabbit Express
by Michael Gay

C. 1982
William Morrow and Co.



The Dragon Kite
by Nancy Luenn
Illustrated by
Michael Hague

c. 1982
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition

 

Nobody
by Patience Brewster

c. 1982
Clarion Books


 

Owly
by Mike Thaler
Pictures by
David Wiesner

c. 1982
Harper & Row

 

 

The Curious
 Little Kitten
by Linda Hayward
Illustrated by
 Maggie Swanson

c. 1982
Golden Press/Western Pub.


Coming Soon
The Tickle Tree 
by Fran Manushkin 
Illustrated by Yuri Salzman

c. 1982
clarion

 

 

Two Coyotes
by Carol Carrick
Illustrated by
Donald Carrick

c. 1982
Clarion Books

 

 

Mouse and Moles
 Great Race
by Diane Redfield Massie

c. 1982
Weekly Reader 
Children's Book Club

 

 

1983

 





***The Glorious Flight
Across the Channel 
with Louis Bleriot

by Alice and Martin Provensen

c. 1983
Viking

Too Big
by Holly Keller

c. 1983
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

 

Ruby the Red Knight
Story and Pictures
by Amy Aitken

c. 1983
Bradbury Press
First Edition



Binky Gets a Car
by Dick Gackenbach

c. 1983
Clarion Books


 

The Nightgown of 
the Sullen Moon
by Nancy Willard
Illustrated by
 David McPhail

c. 1983
Harcourt Brace 
Jovanovich

 

Cully Cully 
and the Bear
by Wilson Gage
Pictures 
by James Stevenson

c. 1983
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

You'll Soon Grow
 Into Them, Titch
by Pat Hutchins

c. 1983
Greenwillow Books

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

I Hate My
Brother Harry
by Crescent Dragonwagon
Illustrated by
Dick Gackenbach

c. 1983
Harper & Row

 

Patrick's 
Dinosaurs
by Carol Carrick
Pictures 
by Donald Carrick

c. 1983
Clarion Books

 


Loudmouth George and 
the Sixth-Grade Bully
by Nancy Carlson

c. 1983
Carolrhoda Books

 

Mystery
on the Docks
by Thatcher Hurd

c. 1983
Harper & Row

Coming Soon

 

 

 

George's Store
Story by Frank Asch
Pictures by B. Wiseman

c. 1983
Parent's Magazine Press

 

Henry Babysits
by Robert Quackenbush

c. 1983
Parents Magazine Press

 




 

The Very Busy
Spider
by Eric Carle

c. 1983
Philomel Books
Second Edition

 

The Story of a
Bragging Duck
by Juliet Kepes

c. 1983
Houghton Mifflin Co.


Gorilla
by Anthony Browne

c. 1983
Alfred A. Knopf

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 


The Surprise
by George Shannon
Pictures by Jose Aruego
and Ariane Dewey

c. 1983
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

 

 

Billy Gorilla
by Ron Wegen

c. 1983
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition



Possum Crest's Greatest 
Christmas Show
by Marilyn Jeffers Walton
Illustrations by
Susan Jeschke

c. 1983
Raintree Publishers Inc.

Coming Soon


 

 

Mooncake
by Frank Asch

c. 1983
Prentice-Hall, Inc.


 

Loudmouth George
and the Fishing Trip
by Nancy Carlson

c. 1983
Carolrhoda Books



1984


 
 

***Saint George
  and the Dragon 

Retold
 by Margaret Hodges
Illustrated 
by Trina Schart Hyman

c. 1984
Little, Brown and Co.
First Edition


*Hansel and Gretel
Retold by Rika Lesser
Illustrated by
Paul O. Zelinsky

c. 1984
The Putnam & Grosset Group



*Have You Seen
  My Duckling?
by Nancy Tafuri

c. 1984
Viking Penguin/Puffin


 

*The Story of
Jumping Mouse
A Native American Legend Retold and Illustrated 
by John Steptoe

c. 1984
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Scholastic paperback, 1993




Yellow & Pink
by William Steig

c. 1984
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First Edition

 

 

The Goodnight
Circle
by Carolyn Lesser
Illustrated by 
Lorinda Bryan Cauley

c. 1984
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

Dark and 
Full of Secrets
by Carol Carrick
Pictures by 
Donald Carrick

c. 1984
Clarion Books
First Edition

 

The Biggest
Pumpkin Ever
by Steven Kroll
Illustrated by Jeni Bassett

c. 1984
Holiday House

 

 



Coming Soon

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

Coming Soon
Tim the Mouse 
Written by David Lloyd
Illustrated by Barbara Firth

c. 1982
Walker Books
(Scholastic Edition)

 

Jimmy's Boa
Bounces Back
by Trinka Hakes Noble
Pictures by
Steven Kellogg

c. 1984
Dial Books for
Young Readers

 

The Elves and the Shoemaker
Retold and Illustrated
 by Paul Galdone

c. 1984
Clarion Books


Coming Soon
All Asleep
by Charlotte Pomerantz
Illustrated by Nancy Tafuri

c. 1984
Greenwillow
Julia Macrae Books

 

Moongame
by Frank Asch

c. 1984
Simon & Schuster



 

The Pain and 
the Great One
by Judy Bloom
 Illustrated by Irene Trivas

c. 1984 (Illus.)
c. 1974 (Text)
Simon and Schuster


Poppy the Panda
by Dick Gackenbach

c. 1984
Clarion Books
First Edition


Skyfire
by Frank Asch

c. 1984
Simon and Schuster






The Perfect 
Mouse
Retold by
Dick Gackenbach

c. 1984
Macmillan Publishing Co.

 

The Little Mouse,
 The Red Ripe
Strawberry, and the
Big Hungry Bear

by Don and Audrey Wood
illustrated by Don Wood

c. 1984
Scholastic Edition

 

Mama 
Don't Allow
by Thacher Hurd

c. 1984
HarperCollins

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

Maybe a Bandaid
Will Help
by Anna Grossnickle Hines

c. 1984
E. P. Dutton

 


1985

 

 

***The Polar Express
Written and Illustrated 
by Chris Van Allsburg

c. 1985
Houghton Mifflin Co.




*The Relatives Came
Story by Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by
 Stephen Gammell

c. 1985
Bradbury Press

 

*King Bidgood's
in the Bathtub

Written by Audrey Wood
Illustrated by Don Wood

c. 1985
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers
First Edition

The Puppy Who
Wanted a Boy

 by Jane Thayer
Illustrated by
Lisa McCue

c. 1985
William Morrow & Co.

 

The Night Book
 by Mark Strand
Illustrated by
William Pene Dubois

c. 1985
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
First Edition


 

 

Hazel's Amazing
Mother
by Rosemary Wells

c. 1985
Dial Books for Young Readers

 

Whiskers &
Rhymes
by Arnold Lobel

c. 1985
HarperCollins, Inc


Teeny Tiny
Retold by  Jill Bennett
Pictures by Tomie DePaola

c. 1985
G. P. Putnam's Sons

 

George Shrinks
Story and Pictures
by William Joyce

c. 1985
HarperCollins, Inc

 

Louanne Pig in
Making the Team
by Nancy Carlson

c. 1985
Carolrhoda books

 

 


The Foolish Tortoise
by Richard Buckley
Illustrations by Eric Carle

c. 1985
Picture Book Studio

 

A Clock For Beany
 by Lisa Bassett
Pictures by Jeni Bassett

c. 1985
Dodd, Mead & Co.

 

Coming Soon
Anna Banana 
and Me
by Leonore Blegvad
Illustrated by Erik Blegvad

c. 1985
Simon & Schuster

Cat Goes
Fiddle-i-fee

 Adapted and Illustrated
by Paul Galdone

c. 1985
Clarion

 

A Weekend
in the Country

 by Lee Lorenz

c. 1985
Prentice-Hall, Inc.

 



Coming Soon
Solomon 
the Rusty Nail
by William Steig

c. 1985
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition

Joey Runs Away
by Jack Kent

c. 1985
Prentice-Hall, Inc.



The Quilt Story
 by Tony Johnston
Illustrated by
Tomie dePaola

c. 1985
Putnam

 

Bear Shadow
by Frank Asch

c. 1985
Simon & Schuster


How Much Is a Million?
by David M. Schwrtz
Pictures by Steven Kellogg

c. 1985
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard


Jerome the
Babysitter
by Eileen Christelow

c. 1985
Clarion Books
First edition

 

It's Mine!
A fable by Leo Lionni

c. 1985
Alfred A. Knopf

 

 

Hobo Dog in the
Ghost Town

 by Thatcher Hurd

c. 1985
Scholastic

 

The Greedy 
Python
by Richard Buckley
Illustrated by Eric Carle

c. 1985
Picture Book Studio/
Scholastic paperback

 

It Wasn't 
My Fault
by Helen Lester
Illustrated 
by Lynn Munsinger

c. 1985
Houghton Mifflin Co.

 

 

 

My Visit to
the Dinosaurs
by Aliki

c. 1985
Harper & Row

See My Visit to the Dinosaurs,
1969, with original illustrations
 by the same illustrator 

 

Jam
A True Story
By Margaret Mahy
Illustrated 
by Helen Craig

c. 1985
J. M. Dent and Sons, London
First American Edition by
The Atlantic Monthly Press



Coming Soon
Chester 
The Worldly Pig
Written and Illustrated
 by Bill Peet

c. 1985
Houghton Mifflin

 

 

Dakota Dugout
by Ann Turner
Illustrated 
by Ronald Himler

c. 1985
Aladdin/Macmillan

 

 

Liar, Liar, 
Pants on Fire

Story by Miriam Cohen
Pictures 
by Lillian Hoban

c. 1985
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 


Bailey Goes
Camping
by Kevin Henkes

c. 1985
Greenwillow Books

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

Camp-out
Story by Joyce Maynard
Pictures by Steve Bethel

c. 1985
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 


 

If You Give a 
Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Illustrated by 
Felicia Bond

c. 1985
Harper & Row

 

All By Myself
Anna Grossnickle Hines

c. 1985
Clarion Books

 

Coming Soon

 

 


The Insignificant Elephant
by Carol Greene
Illustrated by
Susan Gantner

c. 1985
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition

 

1986

   

 

*Alphabetics
by Suse MacDonald

c. 1986
Bradbury Press/
MacMillan


*Rumpelstiltskin
Retold and Illustrated
by Paul O. Zelinsky

c. 1986
E. P. Duttom


Five Minutes'
 Peace
by Jill Murphy

c. 1986
G. P. Putnam's Sons

 

Coming Soon

 

 


The Robbery
at the Diamond
Dog Diner

by Eileen Christelow

c. 1986
Clarion Books
First Edition




The Purse
by Kathy Caple

c. 1986
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition

 

Hattie and
the Fox
by Mem Fox
Illustrated by Patricia Mullins

c. 1986
Bradbury Press

 

Coming Soon
Duncan & Dolores
by Barbara Samuels

c. 1986
Bradbury Press

 

 

The Doorbell Rang
by Pat Hutchins

c. 1986
William Morrow & Co

 

 

Jenna and 
the Troublemaker
by Hiawyn Oram
Illustrated by Tony Ross

c. 1986
Henry Holt and Co.
First Edition

 

Brave Irene
by William Steig

c. 1986
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

 

Coming Soon
Deer at the Brook
by Jim Arnosky

c. 1986
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

 

Coming Soon
A Weekend 
with Wendell
by Keven Henkes

c. 1986
Greenwillow

The Monster
 Bed
 by Jeanne Willis
Illustrated by Susan Varley

c. 1986
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

 

Coming Soon
Furlie Cat
by Berniece Freschet
Picures by Betsy Lewin

c. 1986
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

 



The Pea Patch Jig
 by Thatcher Hurd

c. 1986
Crown  Publishers, Inc.

 

 

 

Coming Soon
Noah's Ark
Illustrated 
by Nonny Hogrogian

c. 1986
Alfred A. Knopf

 

 

Freckles & Willie
by Marjorie Cuyler
Illustrated by Marsha Winborn

c. 1986
Holt, Rinehart and Winston

 

 

Coming Soon
The Baby Animals' Party
by Katherine Ross
Illustrated by Lisa McCue

c. 1986
Random House


Abiyoyo
Based on a south
African Lullaby 
and Folk Story
Text by Pete Seeger
Illustrations by
 Michael Hayes

c. 1986
Macmillan Publishing

Max's Christmas
by Rosemary Wells

c. 1986
Dial Book

 

 

Scary, Scary Halloween
by Eve Bunting
Pictures by Jan Brett

c. 1986
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin


The Lady and
 the Spider
 by Faith McNulty
Illustrated by Bob Marstall

c. 1986
Harper & Row
First Edition

Goodbye House
by Frank Asch

c. 1986
Prentice -Hall, Inc.
First Edition

 



The Christmas
 Day Kitten
 by James Herriot
Illustrated by Ruth Brown

c. 1986
St. Martin's Press


The Mother's
 Day Mice
 by Eve Bunting
Illustrated by Jan Brett

c. 1986
Clarion Books


A Koala 
Grows Up
 by Rita Golden Gelman
Illustrated by
 Gioia Fiammenghi

c. 1986
Scholastic, Inc.

 

Flossie & the Fox
by Patrica C. McKissack
Pictures by
Rachel Isadora

c. 1986
Dial Books 
For Young Readers
First Edition

 



A Regular 
Rolling Noah
by George Ella Lyon
Illustrated by 
Stephen Gammell

c. 1986
Bradbury Press

A New Coat
for Anna
by Harriet Ziefert
Pictures by Anita Lobel

c. 1986
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

 

When Sheep
Cannot Sleep
The Counting Book
by Satoshi Kitamura

c. 1986
Farrar Straus Giroux

 

Three Little
Kittens
 
by Paul Galdone

c. 1986
Houghton Mifflin


1987



***  Owl Moon 
 by Jane Yolen
Illustrated by
John Schoenherr

c. 1987
Philomel Books
Fifth Impression

 

Coming Soon
*Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter
by John Steptoe

c. 1987
William Morrow & Co., Inc.

 

The Pottery Place
by Gail Gibbons

c. 1987
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
First Edition



Raccoons and 
Ripe Corn
by Jim Arnosky

c. 1987
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

 

The Tiny Seed
by Eric Carle

c. 1987
Picture Book Studio



The Not-So-Wicked
Stepmother 
by Lizi Boyd

c. 1987
Viking Kestrel
First Edition

 

Coming Soon
Sheila Rae, 
the Brave 
by Kevin Henkes

c. 1987
Viking Penguin
1993 Scholastic 

 

Coming Soon
Rainy Day Kate
by Lenore Blegvad
Illustrated 
by Erik Blegvad

c. 1987
William Collins Sons & Co./
Margaret K. McElderry

 

 House
for Hermit Crab
by Eric Carle

c. 1987
Simon and Schuster



Danny's Mystery
Valentine
by Edith Kunhardt

c. 1987
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

 

 

Arabba Gah Zee,
Marissa and Me!
by Ruth Rosner

c. 1987
Albert Whitman & Co.
First Edition

 

The Icky Bug 
Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta
Illustrated by
 Ralph Masiello

c. 1984
Charlesbridge

 

Coming Soon
Florence and Eric
Take the Cake 
by Jocelyn Wild

c. 1987
Dial Books
First Edition 

 

Chipmunk Song
by Joanne Ryder
Pictures by Lynne Cherry

c. 1987
Lodestar Books/E. P. Dutton
First Edition

 

Funny, 
Funny Lyle
by Bernard Waber

c. 1987
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Trumpet edition

 

Coming Soon
Tim and Jim
by Claire Schumacher

c. 1987
Dodd, Mead & Company

 

Moss Gown
by William H. Hooks
Illustrated by Donald Carrick

c. 1987
Clarion



No Jumping
on the Bed
by Tedd Arnold

c. 1987
Dial Books


Coming Soon
The Midnight Jam
by Reeve Lindbergh
paintings by Susan Jeffers

c. 1987
Dial Books
(Puffin Pied Piper paperback)

 

Little Bear's
Trousers
by Jane Hissey

c. 1987
Philomel Books
2nd Impression

 

 



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Coming Soon
My Dad the
 Magnificent
by Kristy Parker
Illustrated by Lillian Hoban

c. 1987
Dutton Children's Books

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

Emma's Vacation
by David McPhail

c. 1987
Dutton
Children's Books

 






 

Bedtime, Zachary
by Muriel Blaustein

c. 1987
Harper & Row
First Edition

 

 

 

The Bird 
Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta
Illustrated by Edgar Stewart

c. 1986
Charlesbridge Publishing


 

Coming Soon
Rupert
The Daily Express Annual
Written and edited 
by James  Henderson
Illustrated by John Harrold
Story colouring 
by Doris Campbell

c. 1987
Express Newspapers

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

Tasmania 
A Wildlife Journey
by Joyce Powzyk

c. 1987
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition

 

 

1988

 

 

***Song and 
Dance Man
by Karen Ackerman
Illustrated by 
Stephen Gammell

c. 1988
Alfred A. Knopf. Inc.


*The Boy of the
Three-Year Nap
by Dianne Snyder
Illustrated by Allen Say

c. 1988
Houghton Mifflin Co.


*Goldilocks and
the Three Bears
Retold and Illustrated
by James Marshall

c. 1988
Dial Books


*Free Fall
by David Wiesner

c. 1988
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard




Coming Soon 
*Mirandy and
Brother Wind


 

 

 

Clever Tom and
the Leprechaun
An Old Irish Story
Retold and Illustrated
by Linda Shute

1988
William Morrow & Co.

 

Coming Soon
I Hear a Noise
by Diane Goode

c. 1988
E. P. Dutton
First Edition

 

Tyrone the Horrible
by Hans Wilhelm

c. 1988
Scholastic Inc.

 

 

Spinky Sulks
 by William Steig

c. 1988
Michael di Capua Books/
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

 

Amanda's
Dinosaur
by Wendy Orr
Illustrated
by Gillian Campbell

c. 1988
Ashton Scholastic



 

The Dinosaur Who
Lived In My Backyard
by B. G. Hennessy
Pictures by Susan Davis

c. 1988
Viking Penguin


Something Special
by David McPhail

c. 1988
Little, Brown and Co.


 

Shy Charles
by Rosemary Wells

c. 1988
Dial Books
First Edition



The Wonderful
Hay Tumble
by Kathleen 
McKinley Harris

c. 1988
Morrow Junior Books
First Edition


The Dog Who
Had Kittens
by Polly M. Robertus
Illustrated by Janet Stevens

c. 1988
Holiday House




Busy Beavers
by Lydia Dabcovich

c. 1988
E. P. Dutton


Coming Soon

 

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

Cookie's Week
by Cindy Ward
Illustrated by
 Tomie DePaola

  c. 1988
Putnam Publishing

 


 



Oats and
Wild Apples
by Frank Asch

c. 1988
Holiday House


Coming Soon

 

 

 

Stringbean's Trip
To the Shining Sea
by Vera B. Williams 
and Jennifer Williams

c. 1988
Greenwillow Books

 

Coming Soon

 

 



Step Into the Night
by Joanne Ryder
Illustrated by
Dennis Nolan

c. 1988
Four Winds Press
First Edition


 


Ira Says Goodbye
by Bernard Waber

c. 1988
Houghton Mifflin

 

 

Tacky the Penguin
by Helen Lester
Illustrated by 
Lynn Munsinger

c. 1988
Houghton Mifflin

 

Dinosaur Bob
and his adventures
with the family Lazardo
by William Joyce

c. 1988
Harper & Row publishers

 

Geraldines 
Big Snow
by Holly Keller

C. 1988
Greenwillow Books

 

There's Something 
in My Attic
Written and illustrated
by Mercer Mayer

c. 1988
Dial Books for Young Readers
First Edition


The Legend of the
Indian Paintbrush

Retold and Illustrated 
by Tomie dePaola

c. 1987
Putnam Publishing

 

Boris Beaver
by Marcus Pfister
Translated by Anthea Bell

c. 1988
North-South Books


Chester's Way
by Kevin Henkes

c. 1988
Viking Penguin

 

 

The Cinnamon Hen's
Autumn Day
Written and Illustrated
by Sandra Dutton

c. 1988
Atheneum/Macmillan
First Edition


1989



***Lon Po Po
A Red-Riding Hood 
Story from China
Translated and Illustrated
 by Ed Young

c. 1989
Philomel Books


 

*The Talking Eggs
by Robert D. Souci 
Pictures by Jerry Pinkney

c. 1989
Dial Books 
for Young Readers





*Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
by Eric Kimmel
 Illustrated by 
Trina Schart Hyman

c. 1989
Holiday House


No Nap
by Eve Bunting
Illustrated by
 Susan Meddaugh

c.1989
Clarion Books




Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown
Pictures by Felicia Bond

c. 1989
(text c. 1956, c 1989 by Roberta Brown Rauch)
HarperCollins



 

 

Come Out, 
Muskrats

by Jim Arnosky

c. 1989
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard


Grandpa's
Too-Good Garden
James Stevenson

c. 1989
Greenwillow Books


Nettie Jo's
 Friends
by Patrica C. Mc.Kissack
Illustrated by Scott Cook

c. 1989
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition

 

Night Noises
Written by Mem Fox
Illustrated by Terry Denton

c. 1989
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

 

 

Coming Soon
Tillie and the Wall
by Leo Lionni

c. 1989
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.


Blackberry Ramble
by Thatcher Hurd

c. 1989
Crown Publishers
First Edition

 

 

Shoes From
Grandpa
by Mem Fox
Illustrated 
by Patricia Mullins

c. 1989
Orchard Books

The Rabbit Story
by Alvin Tresselt
Pictures by Carolyn Ewing

c. 1989
William Morrow & Co.



Is Your Mama 
a Llama?
by Deborah Guarino
Pictures by Steven Kellogg

c. 1989
Scholastic




A Piece of Cake
by Jill Murphy

c. 1989
G. P. Putnam's Sons

 

 

Trick or Treat,
Danny
by Edith Kunhardt

c. 1989
Greenwillow Books

 

The Mitten
Adapted and Illustrated
by Jan Brett

c. 1989
G. P. Putnam's Sons


Heron Street
by Ann Turner
Paintings 
by Lisa Desimini

c. 1989
Harper & Row

 

Jamaica
Tag-Along
Juanita Havill
Illustrations by
Anne Sibley O'Brien

c. 1989
Houghton Mifflin

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

Which Witch
Is Which
by Pat Hutchins

c. 1989
Greenwillow

 

 

Coming Soon

 

 

 

 

The Popcorn
Dragon
Written by Jane Thayer
Illustrated by Lisa McGue

c. 1989
William Morrow

 

Hurry Up,
Franklin
Written 
by Paulette Bourgeois
Illustrated
by Brenda Clark

c. 1989
Kids Can Press

 

 

 


The Birthday Thing
by SuAnn and Kevin Kiser
Pictures 
by Yossi Abolafia

c. 1989
Greenwillow Books
First Edition

 

Coming Soon
Paddiwak and Cozy
by Berlie Doherty
Pictures by Teresa O'Brien

c. 1989
Dial Books for Young Readers
First Edition


The Tub People
by Pam Conrad
Illustrations by
Richard Egielski

c. 1989
Harper & Row

 

Coming Soon
Yankee Doodle
 Rides Again
by Al Hartley

c. 1989
Multnomah


Phil the
Ventrilquist
by Robert Krauss

c. 1989
Greenwillow Books


                                                 

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