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Inscribed sixth printing of this collection of off-kilter fairy tales, winner of a 1993 Caldecott Honor. THE STINKY CHEESE MAN was Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's second work as an author-illustrator team, and one of their best-known: it won the NEW YORK TIMES Best Illustrated Book Award, as well as a Caldecott Honor. Smith's charmingly peculiar artistic style has graced publications from children's literature to periodicals, and even the covers of punk rock albums. His children's book illustrations have earned him numerous accolades, including two Caldecott Medals and five New York Times' Best Illustrated Book awards, as well as the adoration of numerous slightly off-center kids (including this cataloguer, who has many fond memories of THE STINKY CHEESE MAN). 10.5'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards with "reinforced binding" label. Original unclipped ($16.00) color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Honor medallion sticker. [52] pages. Illustrated in color. Inscribed by Scieszka to front flyleaf, "To Scott and Steven / 2 Stinkers!". Jacket with light wear, a bit of pealing to medallion sticker. Binding with a touch of bimping to edges. Bright. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 47976

Condition: Fine in like jacket. Inscribed third printing of this Newbery Honor book. 5.75'' x 8.5''. Original quarter cloth, paper boards. In original unclipped dust jacket with no award seal. 208 pages. Inscribed by Giff.

Seller Inventory # 35366

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Say, Allen (illustrator). First edition. First printing of this hilarious story about a clever but lazy young man who wants to marry the daughter of a rich merchant, and his even cleverer mother - winner of a 1989 Caldecott Honor. Allen Say, born in Yokohama, Japan in 1937, dreamed of becoming an artist from a young age. Before entering the world of children's book illustration, Say worked as a sign-painter and as a photographer, his skills behind the lens landing him a spot in the military newspaper STARS AND STRIPES. He illustrated his first children's book in 1972, and has earned a Caldecott Medal and a Caldecott Honor, among other accolades; Say's work is often based on personal experiences or the stories of family members, and his illustrations are noted for merging "the real and the surreal in his books, using photographs, pen-and-ink sketches, and watercolor paintings to illustrate them" (Oregon Encyclopedia). 9.5'' x 10''. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt-stamped design. Original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket (no medal sticker). Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Jacket with a couple tiny spots of soil, shallow crease at rear joint. Book sharp and bright.

Seller Inventory # 45755

First edition. First printing of this Newbery Honor book, the charming story of a humanized mouse stranded on an island away from his beloved wife, by the Caldecott-winner and author of SHREK! 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth boards. Original unclipped ($5.95) color pictorial dust jacket with no medal. Illustrated in black and white. 120 pages. Small ink ownership inscription to front pastedown under jacket flap. Jacket with mild wear, a touch of rippling to rear panel. Binding with mild edgewear. Tight. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 47698

Condition: Fine in like dust jacket. First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. Quarto. Original cloth. In original color pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped and no award seal. 176 pages.

Seller Inventory # 31554

Moser, Barry (illustrator). Inscribed early printing of this Newbery Honor-winning collection of 25 stories of beginnings, with vibrant and evocative illustrations by Barry Moser. Barry Moser has illustrated over 300 titles, from beloved children's works old and new to pinnacles of English literature. He is an artist of many talents, working with paint and woodblocks, as well as the arts of printmaking and book design. Moser earned the National Book Award in 1983, and numerous other accolades over the course of his dynamic career. Virginia Hamilton's career is filled with awards for her wide-ranging works in children's books, from the Newbery Award-winning M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT to the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which she received only a few years after this book's publication. 10'' x 8.25''. Original red cloth-backed green boards with gilt lettering. Original unclipped ($18.95) color pictorial dust jacket, with Newbery Honor sticker. Illustrated in color. Second printing. 162 pages, including index. Inscribed by Moser to title page. Jacket with a touch of edgewear, scattered foxing to reverse. Faint foxing to half-title page and fore edge. Sharp and bright. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 45882

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Smith, Lane (illustrator). First edition. Signed first printing of this hilarious picture book about a boy with the curse of SCIENCE VERSE - he can see the poetry of science in everything, literally. Lane Smith's charmingly peculiar artistic style has graced publications from children's literature to periodicals, and even the covers of punk rock albums. His children's book illustrations have earned him numerous accolades, including two Caldecott Medals and five New York Times' Best Illustrated Book awards, as well as the adoration of numerous slightly off-center kids. He has collaborated with writer Jon Scieszka across a number of books, including the Caldecott Honor-winning THE STINKY CHEESE MAN. 11'' x 10.75''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($16.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [40] pages. CD to inside of rear board. Signed by Scieszka and Smith to verso of front flyleaf, with original drawing of a long-necked dinosaur. Jacket with a couple tiny spots of edgewear. Tight.

Seller Inventory # 45601

Condition: Fine in like jacket. Moser, Barry (illustrator). First printing of the Moser-illustrated edition of this Newbery Award Winner, first published in 1958. 9.5'' x 7.5''. Original quarter cloth, paper boards. In original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket wit no award sticker. Illustrated by Moser with twelve color plates.

Seller Inventory # 35387

Condition: Fine in near-fine dust jacket. First edition. First printing of this autobiographical reflection on Sis's childhood, brought to light by his discovery of a diary his father kept while lost in Tibet - a 1999 Caldecott Honor book. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning artist Peter Sis's entrancing, joyful, and detailed illustrations mix technical prowess with a love for the medium. His work boasts man accolades, including seven NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Best Illustrated Book of the Year awards, Society of Illustrators gold and silver medals, and three Caldecott Honors. 11'' x 10.25''. Original white cloth boards with color pictorial onlay. Original unclipped ($25.00) translucent dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [60] pages. Jacket with a hint of rippling. Sharp and clean.

Seller Inventory # 46525

Condition: Very good in good jacket. First edition. First printing of this account of the famed naturalist, with 12 beautiful color plates reproduced from his famed elephant folio BIRDS OF AMERICA - a 1937 Newbery Honor book. 8.75'' x 6''. Original blue cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) blue dust jacket. Color pictorial frontispiece with 11 color plates. 342 pages, including index. Bookplate of Flora D. Henning to front pastedown. Ownership stamps of the Uptown Chicago Boys Club to front and rear pastedowns (no other ex-library markings). Jacket with edgewear, some chipping and closed tears; some rubbing and paint marks to front panel. Boards with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends, a touch of toning. Interior clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # 35390

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Shulevitz, Uri (illustrator). Signed first printing of this semi-autobiographical account of Uri Shulevitz's life in America after fleeing WWII with his family, a Caldecott Honor book. Uri Shulevitz got his start as an illustrator for a Hebrew book publisher before being snapped up by Harper & Row as a children's book artist and author. He has earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors for his often dreamy works. 10'' x 10''. Original boards. Original unclipped ($16.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Shulevitz to front flyleaf with simple self portrait. Sharp.

Seller Inventory # 48806

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). Signed later printing of Van Allsburg's first book, the story of a boy's search for his dog in a mysterious and eerie garden. Chris Van Allsburg's rich illustrations are easy to get lost in. He began his career as a sculptor, graduating with an MFA from RISD; his wife Lisa and illustrator David Macaulay urged him to try his hand at children's book illustration in 1979, and a Caldecott Honor, National Book Award, and numerous other accolades later, his books are a beloved part of many childhood (and adult) shelves. 9.5'' x 11.5''. Original cream cloth, blind-stamped central vignette. In original unclipped ($17.95) pictorial dust jacket with silver Caldecott Honor Book seal to front panel. Black endpapers. Illustrated by Van Allsburg with full-page black-and-white plates. [32] pages. Signed by Van Allsburg on title page. 2'' closed tear to jacket front joint, light sunning around spine. Minor edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 49750

Condition: Fine in very good plus jacket. Sendak, Maurice (illustrator). Lovely signed re-issue of the classic 1953 Caldecott Honor book - the first of Sendak's career. 10'' x 8''. Original black cloth spine, yellow pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Honor medal. Yellow endpapers. Printed on yellow paper. Illustrated by Sendak with white and blue highlights. [28] pages. Signed by Sendak in blue ink to title page. Jacket with sunned spine, a bit of soil. Book clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # 52133

Condition: Fine in very good jacket. First UK edition, published the same year as the first US, of the Caldecott Honor Award winner. Original cloth. In original dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout. Dust jacket has a few edge repairs.

Seller Inventory # 12578

Condition: Fine in like jacket. First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book. Original boards. In original dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 31545

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the 1990 Newbery Honor book, following two brothers on a Minnesota farm as they work and listen to their uncle's stories. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original orange cloth-backed blue boards. Original unclipped ($11.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 103 pages. Extremely mild wear to extremities of dust jacket, trace evidence of sticker removal to front panel. A bright, sharp book.

Seller Inventory # 40539

First printing of this vibrant story of Pearl the Pig and her new friend, a magical talking bone - winner of a Caldecott Honor and nominee for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK! and its associated films. 11'' x 8.75''. Original cloth boards. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, a touch of toning. Binding with a hint of edgewear. Bright. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 48880

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Moser, Barry (illustrator). First edition. First printing of this Newbery Honor-winning collection of 25 stories of beginnings, with vibrant and evocative illustrations by Barry Moser - with autograph note from Virginia Hamilton laid in. Barry Moser has illustrated over 300 titles, from beloved children's works old and new to pinnacles of English literature. He is an artist of many talents, working with paint and woodblocks, as well as the arts of printmaking and book design. Moser earned the National Book Award in 1983, and numerous other accolades over the course of his dynamic career. Virginia Hamilton's career is filled with awards for her wide-ranging works in children's books, from the Newbery Award-winning M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT to the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which she received only a few years after this book's publication. 10'' x 8.25''. Original red cloth-backed green boards with gilt lettering. Original unclipped ($18.95) color pictorial dust jacket, no award sticker. Illustrated in color. 162 pages, including index. Letter to "Barbara" signed by Virginia Hamilton, dated February 27, loosely laid in. Tiny bump to top corner of front board. Sharp and bright.

Seller Inventory # 35384

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition. First printing of the exciting story of Louis Bl�riot's flight over the English Channel in 1909, the first time such a feat had been accomplished. Alice and Martin Provensen illustrated over 40 books as a team, and earned awards including a Caldecott Medal and a Caldecott Honor. Martin also designed the Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger. 8.25'' x 10''. Original pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($13.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 40 pages. Jacket with a bit of faint foxing, a couple tiny closed tears. Tight.

Seller Inventory # 46607

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition. First printing of the Caldecott award-winner, Wiesner's interpretation of the classic story with gorgeous color illustrations. 9'' x 11.25''. Original quarter maroon cloth, grey paper boards. In original unclipped ($16.00) color pictorial dust jacket with no medal. Cream endpapers. Illustrated by Wiesner in color throughout. [40] pages.

Seller Inventory # 29457

Condition: Fine in like jacket. First edition. First printing of the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King award-winner, with jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter maroon cloth, cream paper boards, metallic blue-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($10.95) pictorial dust jacket designed by the Dillons, with no award seal. Pale green endpapers. 215, [1] pages.

Seller Inventory # 35382

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition. First printing of this Caldecott Honor book, a wordless picture book in which a cloud takes a boy on a magical trip to Sector 7, where he learns how clouds are shaped and channeled. 10.75'' x 9.25''. Original quarter green cloth, white blind-stamped paper boards. In original unclipped ($16.00) color pictorial dust jacket with no award medal. Cream endpapers. Every page completely covered with detailed color illustrations. [48] pages. As new.

Seller Inventory # 34474

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition (stated). First printing of the Caldecott award winner, about French aerialist Philippe Petit's tightrope walk across the two towers of the former World Trade Center in New York City. 11'' x 8''. Original color pictorial glossy boards. In original unclipped ($17.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Cream endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout, with two fold-out double-page spreads. [34] pages.

Seller Inventory # 30638

Condition: Fine. Zelinsky, Paul O. (illustrator). First edition (stated). First printing of the Caldecott Award winner, featuring magnificent color illustrations by Zelinsky. Caldecott award winner. Quarto. Original pictorial boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Zelinsky in color throughout.

Seller Inventory # 22506

Condition: Near fine. Privately printed limited edition of the Caldecott Honor Christmas story, printed on fine paper with attractive typography and gorgeous illustrations by Seredy. 8'' x 6.25''. Original green decorative boards with pink field for title. Pink endpapers. Illustrated by Seredy with beautiful full-page illustrations with orange and pink highlights. Privately Printed in limited edition from friends of Aldus Printers in 1949. 32, [2] pages. Very light rubbing and hint of toning to spine ends: beautiful overall.

Seller Inventory # 29689

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition. First printing of Wiesner's first book to win the Caldecott Medal, featuring virtually no words but many hovering frogs. David Wiesner's knack for scale and perspective - from illustrating tiny fish at play or the imposing hulk of an enormous felled tree to entirely wordless stories - have earned him three Caldecott Medals, only the second artist to do so. Here, cheerful frogs hover like UFOs across gorgeous twilight spreads. What next? Pigs flying? 9'' x 11''. Original quarter black cloth, light blue paper boards. In original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Tan endpapers. Illustrated by Wiesner in color throughout. [32] pages.

Seller Inventory # 40941

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Zelinsky, Paul O. (illustrator). Signed first printing of this Caldecott Honor book retelling of the classic story of gold-spinning and name-guessing, illustrated in striking Renaissance style. Paul O. Zelinsky is a children's book chameleon. He notes that his art is "recognized by [its] unrecocognizability," and his output exhibits delightful variety: from simple pop-up books to illustrations inspired by the high Renaissance, he has a title for every aesthetic taste (DETROIT FREE PRESS). Zelinsky has earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors. 11.25'' x 8.5''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Zelinsky to half-title page. Sharp.

Seller Inventory # 48797

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. Rohmann, Eric (illustrator). First edition (stated). First printing of the 2003 winner of the Caldecott, with no medal on the original dust jacket. 8.25'' x 10.75''. Original boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout. [32] pages.

Seller Inventory # 34471

Condition: Fine in very good jacket. Inscribed third printing of the Caldecott winner, this copy inscribed by white author and filmmaker McDermott to Marian Young, a prominent librarian and member of the Caldecott Award Selection Committee. 9.75'' x 11.25''. Original cloth. In original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with award medal. Illustrated by McDermott with full-page color images. Jacket frayed at head of spine, crease on back panel.

Seller Inventory # 38862

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Raschka, Chris (illustrator). First edition. Signed first printing of this wordless picture book about a dog who loses her ball but finds a friend - winner of the 2012 Caldecott Medal. Chris Raschka's flowing watercolor illustrations invite readers to drift through his colorful picture books. PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY called Raschka "one of the most original illustrators at work today," a superlative evidenced by his numerous awards, including two Caldecott Medals and a nomination for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. 10'' x 9.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Raschka to title page. Jacket with a touch of creasing. Sharp and bright.

Seller Inventory # 46610