LOGANBERRY LEGACY
These are charming books featuring Alexander's soft pencil and watercolor illustrations and quirky sense of humor that remembers both the delights and frustrations of childhood.  It doesn't surprise me that kids respond to them, or that grown-ups remember them in that nostalgic warm place in their hearts.  Especially young adults, since Alexander's first book was published in 1966, and she's still writing!

BIBLIOGRAPHY
* designates a title still in print
*And My Mean Old Mother Will Be Sorry, Blackboard Bear.   Dial Press,  1973.
Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1973
Bobo's Dream.  Dial Press, 1970.
The Candlewick Book of Bedtime Stories.  (with Camila Ashforth) Candlewick Press, 1995.
Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me!  Dial Press, 1988.
Four Bears in a Box.  Dial Press, 1980.
Goodnight, Lily.  Candlewick Press, 1993.
How My Library Grew By Dinah.  H.W. Wilson, 1983.
*I Sure Am Glad to See You, Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1973.
I'll Be the Horse If You'll Play With Me.  Dial Press, 1975.
I'll Protect You From the Jungle Beasts. Dial Press, 1973.
Lily and Willy.  Candlewick Press, 1993.  Board book.
Maggie's Moon.  Dial Press, 1969.
The Magic Hat. Puffin Books,  1994.
The Magic Picture. Puffin Books,  1994.
Marty McGee's Space Lab No Girls Allowed.  Dial Press, 1981.
Maybe a Monster.  Dial Press, 1968.
Move Over, Twerp.  Dial Press, 1981.
My Outrageous Friend Charlie.  Dial Press, 1989.
No Ducks in Our Bathtub.  Dial Press, 1973.
Nobody Asked Me If I Wanted a Baby Sister.  Dial Press, 1971.
Out! Out! Out!  Dial Press, 1973.
Pigs Say Oink, a First Book of Sounds.  Random House, 1978.
*Poems & Prayers for the Very Young. Random House, 1973.
Sabrina.  Dial Press, 1988.
The Story Grandmother Told.  Dial Press, 1969.
We Never Get To Do Anything.  Dial Press, 1970.
*We're in Trouble, Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1980.
When The New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out.  Dial Press, 1979.
Where Does the Sky End, Grandpa?  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Willy's Boot.  Candlewick Press, 1993.
*You're a Genius, Blackboard Bear. Candlewick Press, 1995.

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY
* designates a title still in print
Canfield, Dorothy. Understood Betsy. Holt Rinehart and Winston [1917] 1972 printing.
Ehrlich, Amy.  The Everyday Train. Dial Press, 1977.
Hobart, Lois.  What is a Whispery Secret?  Parents Magazine Press, 1968.
Johnson, Laverne.  Night Noises.  Parents Magazine Press, 1968.
*Kaye, Buddy, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman.  A You're Adorable.  Candlewick Press, 1998.  Board Book.
Kennedy, Mary.  Come and See Me.  Harper & Row, 1966.
Lexau, Joan M. Emily And The Klunky Baby And The Next-door Dog.  Dial Press, 1972.
Malloy, Judy.  Bad Thad.  Dutton, 1980.
Orgel, Doris. Whose Turtle? World Pub., 1968.
Scism, Carol K. The Wizard of Walnut Street.  Dial Press, 1973.
Scott, Jane.  To Keep An Island.  Atheneum, 1983.
Skorpen, Liesel Moak.  Charles.  Harper & Row, 1971.
Skorpen, Liesel Moak.  Elizabeth.  Harper & Row, 1970.
Skorpen, Liesel Moak.  Mandy's Grandmother.  Harper & Row, 1975.
Untermeyer, Louis. Forget-Me-Not. Golden Press, 1970.
Untermeyer, Louis. You.  Golden Press, 1969.
Udry, Janice May.  Mary Ann's Mud Day. Harper & Row, 1967.
Van Leeuwen, Jan.  Too Hot For Ice Cream.  Dial Press, 1974. 
Williams, Barbara.  Jeremy Isn't Hungry.  E.P. Dutton, 1978.
Wyse, Lois.  Grandfathers Are to Love.  Parents Magazine Press, 1967.
Wyse, Lois.  Grandmothers Are to Love.  Parents Magazine Press, 1967.
*Zolotow, Charlotte.  Big Sister and Little Sister.  Harper & Row, 1966.

Alexander, Martha.  Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1973.  Third Pied Piper paperback printing.  VG-.  $10

Alexander, Martha.  Sabrina. Dial Press, 1988.  First Puffin Pied Piper Paperback printing, 1991.  F.  $18

Alexander, Martha.  You're a Genius, Blackboard Bear.  Candlewick Press, 1995.  First edition.  Ex-library copy.  VG/VG.  $10
 

Alexander, Martha.  And My Mean Old Mother Will Be Sorry, Blackboard Bear.   Dial Press,  1973.  New hardcover, $12

Alexander, Martha.  I Sure Am Glad to See You, Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1973.  New hardcover, $12

Alexander, Martha. Poems & Prayers for the Very Young. Random House, 1973.  New paperback, $4

Alexander, Martha.  You're a Genius, Blackboard Bear. Candlewick Press, 1995.  New paperback, $4

Alexander, Martha.  We're in Trouble, Blackboard Bear.  Dial Press,  1980.

Kaye, Buddy, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman.  A You're Adorable.  Illustrated by Martha Alexander. Candlewick Press, 1998.  Board Book.  New, $7

Zolotow, Charlotte.  Big Sister and Little Sister. Illustrated by Martha Alexander.  Harper & Row, 1966, 1990.  New paperback, $6

also available... 
When the New Baby Comes
Nobody Asked Me If I wanted a Baby Sister
When the New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out
Little Green Witch
I'll Protect You from the Jungle Beasts
I'll Never Share you Blackboard Bear
Marty McGee's Space Lab

Out-of-print books are harder to stock than new books, and some are hard to find, period.  If the title you are seeking is not listed for sale above, that probably means that I am currently out of stock.  However, I am always on the lookout for books, and will gladly quote you when I do find your coveted book. To add your name to my Wants Files, simply fill out a Book Request Form and I will e-mail you when I have a copy in stock.  Thanks.

Babies are Like That. I already have a copy, one I used when my children were small.  I want to get another one to give to my new grandchild.  The book is small, around 5" x 5", with Martha Alexander's wonderful illustrations and very little text.  Hope you can find one.

Nobody Asked Me if I Wanted a Baby Sister: Read early 70s about a boy who tries to give his  baby sister away.  He pulls her around in a wagon because he has to watch over her, and decides it is no fun and tries to give her away.  In the end he  changes his mind and decides that he loves her and will keep her.  I can't remember what makes him change his mind.  The illustrations look like other books that I've seen written and illustrated by Crosby Bonsall but I am not 100% sure.

IT'S ABOUT A LITTLE BOY AND HIS TEDDY BEAR THE BOY AND HIS TEDDY PLAY HIDE IN TREES ETC. AND THE BOYS MOTHER EVEN MAKES THEM MATCHING SWEATERS, SOMEHOW A LITTLE GIRL GETS THE TEDDY AND TREATS HIM VERY POORLY (MEDICINE IN HIS EYES, DRESSES HIM LIKE A DOLL, HOLDS HIM BY THE EAR, CALLS HIM A BAD TEDDY ETC.) AND EVENTUALLY THE BOY GOES TO GET HIS TEDDY BACK AND THE LITTLE GIRL IS DROPPING HIM OUT OF THE WINDOW WITH A HOMEMADE PARACHUTE AND THE BOY GETS HIS TEDDY BACK. I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE THIS STORY WITH MY TWO SONS.
Perhaps This is the Bear and the Bad Little Girl, by Sarah Hayes, illustrated by Helen Craig, published Cambridge, Candlewick Press 1995, 26 pages. "The third book in the series sees the boy and his stuffed bear Fred enjoying treats in a restaurant -- while the dog waits outside. When Fred is bear-snatched, the dog is, as always, his unwitting rescuer, and the three are happily reunited. Hayes's chantable, mock-cumulative text is perfectly complemented by Craig's humorous, airy pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations and droll dialogue balloons." Unfortunately, none of the descriptions say whether the bad little girl gets the bear home, or is caught before getting there.
L37 little boy and bear: maybe - Charles, by Liesel Moak Skorpen, illustrated by Martha Alexander, published World's Work 1971, 32 pages. "Charles is a bear, rescued from his lonely seat amongst the painted dolls on the toyshop shelf, only to find himself a birthday present for a spoilt little girl .... Luckily, Charles discovers an understanding master when he finds himself swopped for a kitten. This is a book that most little boys will appreciate, as their sisters will its companion volume in which Kate gradually comes to terms with her cloth doll, Elizabeth." (CBR Dec/72 p.183)

I am looking for a book I read as a girl (book was probably published in the early 1970s).  A girl receives a cloth or rag doll for Christmas.  Yet one of her playmates, a snooty type of girl, gets a new doll that is electronic and that moves.  I *distinctly* remember the line from the book in which the snooty girl says about her doll:  "She walks, she talks, she turns somersaults!"  Sadly, the main character in the story rejects her cloth doll -- I think she gives it to her dog and the dog buries it in the backyard -- but then she realizes that her doll is actually wonderful.  She digs her up and does "plastic surgery" on her, sewing her up and making her pretty again.  I would love to find this book again.  Any ideas?
Is this possibly Elizabeth by Liesel Moak Skorpen?
Skorpen (last name), Elizabeth.  Interested in any edition of the book, but preferably a hardback edition.  I sent you information about this book in a stumper, but I just found out more information about this book and so now I know the title and author.

This is the story of a little girl who gets a doll for Christmas, names her Elizabeth, has a rotten cousin who gets a fancier doll but doesn't really love it....Elizabeth is "lost" and eventually found. The book was small, and we got it from the library several times but never found it in a bookstore.  It would make a lovely graduation gift for my Elizabeth, who loved it!
The answer to the ELIZABETH stumper might be Elizabeth by Liesel Skorpen, ill. by Martha Alexander, 1970. It is 32 pages long, and 18 cm.
E5 elizabeth doll: more on the suggested title Elizabeth, by Liesel Moak Skorpen, illustrated by Martha Alexander, published Harper 1970, 32 pages, 5x7" approx. "Kate wanted a doll for Christmas - a golden-haired walking, talking doll. But under the tree she found instead a 'soft cloth doll with warm brown eyes and thick brown braids' like hers. 'What does it do?' asked Kate. 'Everything a doll's supposed to do.' her mother said. Kate was bitterly disappointed, especially when her priggish cousin Agnes came with her stiffly curled, dressy new doll. After the holiday, Kate gave her nameless doll to James the collie to chew; then smitten with remorse she quickly retrieved her and in a flash of sudden love named her Elizabeth. Now the doll became her silent, perfect companion - understanding, patient, faithful. 'Elizabeth could do everything.'" (HB Dec/70 p.605)

Martha Alexander.  Babies are Like That.  I remember this book from childhood and my mother says it disintigrated from being read over and over, and must, sadly, have been thrown away.  I now teach first grade, and want to use it in my classroom as a model for a book I want the students to write called "First Grade is Like That".