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Comments about Tall Book of Make-Believe
I'm searching for a book from my childhood, late
1950's-early 1960's. The title may have been either, Tall Tales or
Tall Stories for Children. It was about 15" long (hence the "Tall" in the
title). Two of the stories were "Bad Mousie" and "The Very Mischief".Also,
I recall a poem "One Day When I Went Walking". Any help would be very much
appreciated. I'd just about given up hope. Yes, I'm interested in
the copy you've found. Thank you, again.
I am pleased as punch! I have been looking for
the story "Bad Mousie" for years- it was read to me as a child and the
book was taken, my mother can also not locate it. I want my childrem to
have a copy of this book- Can you get one? I am not worried about the condition
as long as it is not trashed completly. It is very important to me. Thank
you.
This was one of my favorite books as a child,
and a few years ago I was able to buy a copy, only to have it destroyed
when my apartment burned down. Is it possible that you might be able to
unearth another copy? A former resident of the Buskeye State would be most
appreciative!
PS I found the most asked for books fascinating
-- & yes, at least one particular favorite of mine was there (Tall
Book of Make-Believe; I still have my copy, prized for "The Very
Mischief").
I have a reel to reel tape (and nothing to play
it on) from the late sixties, when I was a first year teacher, of
some of the stories from, I think, THE TALL BOOK OF MAKE BELIEVE.
My favorite story was about a visiting boy or girl who discovered a family
of bears living behind the bedroom door in her relative's house.
The bears left her notes. I think she learned not to be afraid of
the dark. Was this from that book? Also, I remember having other
"tall" books, which I do not see in libraries or bookstores now (maybe
Mother Goose?). As I remember, they were THE TALL BOOK OF MOTHER
GOOSE, THE TALL BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES and THE TALL
BOOK OF FAIRY TALES. Were these a set? Who are the
authors? And are they still readily available? I must find a "make
believe" so I'll have the book to go with the tape once I find it and figure
out how to play it. Your website is like a visit to our childhoods--especially
those of us who read voraciously in the 50's. Thank you!
I was searching for this book on the net &
found your wonderful site! My sister & I have been searching for this
book we had it as children and have such fond memories of the poems
& stories. Stories like Mr. Nobody, and the one about the kids
who got into mischief when the parents were away taking apart the
phonograph, & clock, & putting them back together with honey. I
gasped when I saw the photo of the cover on the 'most requested' page!
Garth
Williams' illustrations are wonderful. Thanks!
I have been looking for this book for a long time.
It probably was printed in the late 40s or early 50s. It was probably
a Little Golden Book, or something like that. It is the story of
a little girl who has a pet mouse that is constantly making messes and
getting in touble.
This is Martha Dudley, Bad Mousie,
first published as Bad Mousie: Donica's Story by Children's
Press (chicago) in 1947, reprinted as Bad Mousie in 1966.
NB: isn't this in the Tall Book of Make-Believe?
I would like to add a comment to the question
about "Bad Mousie," the story about Donnica and her mischievous pet mouse.
It does appear in The Tall Book of Make Believe.
Hi - I am not too optimistic about finding this...
it was
only recently that I finally discovered the name
and author of my favorite childhood book... I figure I would give a try
anyway.
It had winkin blinkin nod I think was the
last story in it.One story was about a little girl who at some point gets
pulled under the door ,so that makes her flat ,but shes ok,green forest
looking book, TALL TALES written in limb's (wood) 12 in. tall and 4 in
wide, hard cover,I been looking for this book,for years with no luck, thanks
a Garth Williams Treasure of Best Loved
Golden Books
as a kind-of substitute to THE TALL BOOK
OF MAKEBELIEVE!!!!!!! discovered it online one day, very cute,
tho just not as FABULOUS as Tall Book...... hopefully Harper Collins will
RE PUBLISH TALL BOOK!!!!!!!! ciao!annie (thought it could
be posted to your site in case anyone is looking for garth goodies.........
Tall Book of Make Believe is SO CHERISHED and loved by EVERYONE who had
it in childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ohhh, what wonderful memories this book has for
me! I still have my copy and it will be my favorite children's
book of all time. I so wish they would reprint it. The publisher
would make a fortune! My copy is priceless but I just found out they
are going for around $200.00. I remember the day my mother bought
it for me. I was about 4 or 5 (I am 51 now) and we went into this
quaint little bookstore for children. She said I could pick out any
book I wanted and that was the one. I read it so many times I couldn't
count and also read it to my children when they were young. It was
their favorite as well.
Tall Book of Make Believe. This
is a book that has so clearly not only stayed but helped form the imaginations
of everyone who read it in childhood. Stories, word, phrases continue to
pop into my mind ever so many years later. There is very little else
I have ever seen in this world that speaks to my soul with purer delight.
My copy is just about ready to fall apart. Oh what I wouldn'\''t
give for a new copy, even without my Godfather's inscription on the inside
cover. If ever a childrens book deserves to be republished, it is this
one.
Comments about Elves and Fairies
I'm looking for a book called The Giant Golden
Book of Elves & Fairies, by Jane Werner. It's illustrated by Garth
Williams. I know the 5th edition at least was published by Simon &
Schuster in 1951. Any chance you have it or know where I can find it? I
grew up with this book and when I got older I found out it had been my
Aunt's book when she was a child and she took it back!
This collection of stories and poems was very
near and dear to my heart with exquisitie illustrations by Garth Williams.
Please let me know if you can locate a copy for me.
And then there was the horror story of a customer
who remembered taking the book out of the library every week and was told
that the book had been recalled and was going out of circulation. Her mother
tried to buy the book from the library, but the librarian grabbed it out
of the child's hands and said she would burn it first. Horrors!
I fear I have bit off more than I can chew . .
. it seems that the book my wife wants me to locate 2 of is none other
than: The Big Golden Book of Elves and Fairies. One for a present and the
other to replace our current copy which has a very battered cover (but
otherwise is pristine). Judging from your web page I might as well join
De Leon is rummaging around Florida for the fountain of youth...... Seriously,
how tough (and expensive) is it to find this thing (non-binding quote,
of course- I'm just interested in an order of magnitude estimate of what
I'm in for since I'm your basic blue collar daddy of a three year old).
This is the Giant Book of Elves and Fairies
with illustrations by Garth Williams. Maybe a Giant Golden Book?
It's a beautiful book, full of wonderful stories and poems. I treasure
my copy of it. One of the stories concerns a little boy who is a
champion marble-player. I think he finds a fairy's dress in
the garden. He winds up with all his marbles changed into precious
stones.
I feel like this is a l-o-n-g shot, but I remember
a book when I was a little girl(in the 50's)...have no idea the name, that
had all these tiny (fairy-like?) people trying to get a giant shoe/boot
out of the mud in a forest?????
You've just made my day! I'm so happy to be able
to have it at a lower price. I did end up buying one at a very high price
but my Aunt really wanted a copy and so was continuing to look for her.
I will be sending you a check for two, one for her and one for my kids
(they aren't touching the old one!!). Thank you again!!!!!
Thank you...thank you...thank you. Like all of
your customers, I have been looking for this book for what seems a lifetime.
I had it when I was a child and can recite "The Fairies" by William Allingham
by heart. The book was stolen when I brought it to school one day for show
and tell. I've been searching ever since. I can't thank you enough for
making a dream come true. I'm a kinda new grandmother with a 1 year old
grandson that of course is the light of my life. I want him to know of
things other than mutant turtles, slime creatures and foul mouthed mice.
Being of Irish descent, my grandparents and mother raised me on stories
of the "wee folk" and fairies. I've told my daughter of this book forever
and now at the old age of 26 she's going to be able to see and read it
and I can read it to my baby Daniel. Thank you again, my heart is singing.
When I was in junior high (in the last millenium),
I read 2 books that were wonderful. Unfortunately, they were sold
or thrown away before the old building was torn down. Since I lived
out of town at that time, I was unaware that I could have gotten these
books. I would love to just read them one more time....
There was also a fairy book that I loved. I don't remember the name.
All I remember is the one story in which a poor little boy helped an elf
or fairy. When he got home, he found that the marbles in his bag
were actually fairy jewels. The illustrations were gorgeous.
I have looked in several libraries, but have never found these again. Good
mystery solving.
I wonder if this person isn't remembering the
Giant
Book of Elves and Fairies. There is a story in that book which
concerns a beautiful girl (I think a shoemakers daughter) and a prince.
There is a picture in which fairies are trying to pull the prince up out
of the mud when he has fallen, injured. And shoes enter into it because
the young woman has lovely silver slippers that have been enchanted by
the fairies and that she has to cover up with wooden clogs. She falls
in love with the prince and goes to work in the court and trips while serving
food and loses her clog and the prince recognizes her by her silver slippers.
I realize that this is a long shot, but when I read the sketchy description,
this is what popped into my head.
My recent exciting book (re-)discovery was finding
the Golden Book Treasury of Elves and Fairies, illustrated
by Garth Williams, recently as a newly reprinted book, and that
was a happy ending to a quest I've been on for the last couple of years,
first, what the title was, and second, who the illustrator was. My
sister and I used to check it out at the city library every time it was
available when we were young girls (in the 1960's), and every now and then
I'd grill her, "do you remember that book we used to get that had the stories
about fairies, etc."
I just listed this book on e-bay without knowing
how rare and popular it is. I am amazed by the comments on your site.
After seeing the price rise, I started searching for why. It is an
obviously beloved book by many. Good luck!
Jane Werner Watson is my mother's first cousin.
She is in her eighties now and lives in California. In the 1950's
she sent my sisters and me many of her books for Christmas. I
am so glad to find a source for her books again, as nearly everything
we had has disappeared. I still have a beat-up old Elves &
Fairies which was one of my great favorites as a child.
My sister and I grew up loving this book, and
as she is older, she has the 1 copy. Please print it again! I cannot completely
communicate the wonder the stories and illustrations have provided for
so many years, and I would love a copy to hand down to my daughter...the
400+ dollar versions are not in my range- re-issued is just fine! Yes,
I would like a copy.
how-how-HOW do I get a copy of this fabulous book?
My older sis (48 now!) is the owner of the only copy we have and she is
keeping it! I am requesting a copy if you have it or know of where
I can find it--this book is tied in with almost all my happy childhood
memories and is a Keepsake of the highest order! Many thanks!
I see other people are looking for this, but I'll
give it
a try as well. I just took my five-year-old niece
to visit a friend who had it on her shelf of old children's books. My niece
was captivated while we took turns reading it to her from cover to cover,
and then almost had to be forcibly torn away from it when it came time
to go home. I'd love to get her a copy if anybody knows where.
The main character is a little girl living in
a mountainous northern country which is inhabitted by trolls. Her grandfather
makes a pair of silver slippers to wear inside her wooden shoes. The story
is in an anothology including stories about a pink bear working in a canning
factory and a story of a boy who caught a Brownie and ransomed him for
a bag of perfect marbles.
selected by Jane Werner, The Giant
Golden Book of Elves and Fairies. I'm sure lots of people
remember this one! Singeli was my favorite story. Is the reprint
still in print, or has it gone out again?
alas, it's been "temporarily out of stock" for months, which really
means that it's gone out of print again...
Jane Werner Watson, Editor Garth Williams,
Illustrator, The Golden Books Treasury of Elves and Fairies. 1999,
reprint. The story about the little girl with the silver slippers,
along with the one about the flying bear, is in this 1951 anthology that
was recently reissued.
Watson, Jane Werner & Williams, Garth,
Giant
Golden Book of Elves & Fairies.
Like so many people, I lent my copy to a friend back in the 1960s and never
saw it again. The stories and illustrations have haunted me all my life,
so when my son, an artist, painted the face of a prince that seemed to
me to be inspired by the illustration of the prince and his horse being
dragged down, I was astonished. My son had never seen the book, which I
had 'lost' several years before he was born. I am now particularly keen
to find a copy of that illustration, to see whether my mind is playing
tricks on me! Also, I was devastated recently when I found the book had
been reprinted, and I didn't realise! I sincerely hope Random House do
decide to reprint soon if anyone gets an inkling that this is likely
to happen, please let me know. Oh, and thanks for the great site! |
Comments about Grandpa Bunny
This was a favorite book of mine in the 50s and
of my children in the 70s. Now my daughter would like to share it
with her children but none of us can find the book. I would be willing
to pay whatever necessary but I am not sure it makes your $15. criteria.
I am looking for a children's book called (I think)
Grandpa Bunny Bunny, it is a story explaining death to young children.
I belive it was a golden book published sometime in the 50's, upon Grandpa
Bunny Bunny's death he is out painting the sky that is why we have such
wonderful sunsets. I don't know the author.
Nice site. I found it through a search with
Dogpile.com, for keyword "Grandpa Bunny." When I got here, I couldn't
find any reference to the book, but decided to ask for a search.
The first day I learned how to use eBay, the book showed up there, but
three day later I wa outbid for it.
There may be a version with a different title.
Printed originally in the 1950's.
I am looking for what I believe is a Golden Book
(with the foil edging) that was called Grandpa Bunny in the 1950's.
It may have a different name in subsequent printings. Anyway, the
story ended with Grandpa Bunny dying and turning into a rainbow.
My mom is looking for this as she and Dad, now grandparents 5 times over
and in their 80's, look at the message somewhat differently now than when
I was a kid. Any help is greatly appreciated. My siblings and
I have been looking for over two years.
My mom-in-law is looking for a decent copy of
this book and will pay up to 15.00.
E7 Hi, I'm looking for a copy of a book
that I loved as a child, but I don't remember the title or author.
It is an Easter book about a village of bunnies who paint easter eggs,
flowers, leaves, and shadows of trees. They are led by a very old
grandfather bunny who is approaching death. At the very end it shows
his last painting--that of a sunset. It had to have been published
in or before the late 1970s. Can you help me?
E7 is almost certainly Golden Book number D111,
titled Walt Disney's Bunny Book, "told by Jane Werner".
A family of bunnies paints Easter eggs, as well as Spring flowers, Autumn
leaves, the shadows of trees on snow etc. The last scene is of a
sunset painted by Great Grandpa Bunny Bunny (the bunny so nice they named
him twice?)
My family had the bunny book, too. It was
a little Golden Book and it was called Grandpa Bunny.
The cover had grandpa bunny, smoking a pipe, talking to some little forest
animals holding paintbrushes a la the deck of cards in Alice painting rose
bushes.
E7 DEFINITELY is a Golden Book. I had the
same one when I was little and remember Great Grandpa Bunny Bunny
Both E7 and E8 sound like they could be referring
to The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes. In it, a
wise old grandfather bunny recruits a bunny to join the team of Easter
Bunnies that delivers beautifully painted eggs all over the world in one
night (they need a team because it would be too much for one bunny).
The Country Bunny is a mother with numerous little bunnies, but she outruns
and outjumps the bigger, faster and more arrogant bunnies and is chosen
by the wise old grandfather bunny. At the end of the Easter night,
she is given the task of carrying a singularly beautiful egg to a small
boy who lives on a mountain top and is very ill. Try as she might,
she cannot climb the mountain (she even injures her leg on the ice) until
the grandfather bunny gives her golden shoes that allow her to bound up
the mountain in a handful of leaps. I think there is a very lovely
illustration of the sunrise that comes up just as she leaves the egg with
the little boy.
Just the publication info for the 2 Disney books:
Jane
Werner Walt Disney's Bunny Book Racine,Western 1951, glossy
Pictorial Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall, Walt Disney Studio, Big Golden
Book Jane Werner Walt Disney's Grandpa Bunny NY Simon
& Schuster 1951, 6.5X8 pict bds, unpag, Little Golden Book #D21, Walt
Disney Studio.
Guess what? It's the same book, albeit
in a different format.
E8 This children's book was very
colorfully illustrated and its main characters were rabbits busily painting
Easter eggs for Easter. I don't remember the plot, except that there
was some hurry to everything. The illustrations were gorgeous, though it
wasn't a big picture book; I believe at one point Jack Frost comes around
and paints leaves with frost. It sounds very similar to the stumper listed
as E7, but as I was probably 5 or 6 when I read it, it was likely published
in the 1960s. (I do remember a lovely picture at the end, which may have
been a sunset as E7 remembers.)
Regarding E8, I wanted to mention that the bunnies
in E7 also painted frost in the winter; and they painted the leaves with
autumn colors in the fall. They even dressed up nature by embellishing
mushrooms, and flowers, and making everything more colorful in spring.
Perhaps it is the same book being sought in E8, although I don't remember
where Jack Frost is in there or not.
Maybe it's Geraldine Ross' Stop
It, Moppit! from 1964, about a clumsy Easter Bunny who always causes
a mess of one kind or another just before Easter, thus making every rabbit
hurry.
I was out last week from my office and just got
back to see your message. Yes, this sort of helps and sort of doesn't--not
only does that suggested title not ring a bell at all for me, but I think
the hurry that both I and E7 allude to is because someone (the Easter bunny?)
dies at the end, so all this stuff has to be done before that happens.
I certainly don't remember mischief being a part of it, but maybe I'm being
morbid (!). I'll order this other if you've got it--it's worth a
try.
It was a pink book about easter. There was
a grandfather bunny that was in charge of painting the easter eggs, and
two little bunnies, I believe a boy and girl. The grandfather dies
(goes off into the sunset) at the end and paints a beautiful sunset in
the colors of easter. It is beautifully illustrated. The grandfather
bunny is dressed formally with a vest and cane and such. Please help!
I was wondering if you could help find a certain
Little Golden Book my mom had when she was a little kid. It
is called "Great Grandpa Bunny". We have wanted this book for
a long time, but am not exactly sure where to get it.
Can you help us?
I cant believe how many people the book Great
Grandpa Bunny Bunny touched. I remember my grandmoter reading this
to me all the time when i was a child in the 70's. She still has the copy,
but I would like one of my own. I know that Walt Disney Bunny Book
is
NOT exactly the same,and its used, but non the less it will be enjoyed!
I hope that it is STILL available and not sold yet.
Walt Disney’s Grandpa Bunny or Walt
Disney’s Bunny Book: I think this may be the same one as
the Solved Mystery: Grandpa Bunny Bunny. There is one
winter scene in particular that shows the little bunnies painting shadows
on the snow. Since this is so often requested, maybe you would be
interested in the several versions I own or have seen.
1. Little Golden Book – Walt Disney’s
Grandpa Bunny, #D21, @ 1951, 28 pages, pink cover
2. Little Golden Book – Walt Disney’s
Bunny Book, #D111, @ 1964, 24 pages, red cover
3. Little Golden Book – Walt Disney’s
Bunny Book (Australian version), #D98, @ 1972, 24 pages, red cover
4. Walt Disney’s Story Land
– 55 favorite stories adapted from Walt Disney films (ISBN 0-307-16547-7).
It includes the story “Grandpa Bunny”, but only 4 illustrations.
5. Walt Disney’s Fantasyland
1 of a 4 volume set of the Wonderful Worlds of Walt Disney. It includes
the story “Grandpa Bunny”, illustrations reformatted and some left out.
Have any of the folks who have looked for the story mentioned seeing the
motion picture “Funny Little Bunnies” that the pictures were adapted from?
That must have been fantastic!
Thank you so much for finding the name of the
book I have looked for - Walt Disney Bunny Book. The
picture of the cover brought back a flood of wonderful memories.
It is not available now but I will be looking for it in the future. Thank
you again.
The Bunny Book. My Mother
used to read this wonderful book to me as a small child, no older than
4, around 1957, before I understood anything at all about death.
Often I wondered what happened to it, as the beautiful illustrations stuck
in my mind. Around spring of 1976, I happened to find the last several
pages of it (from the autumn part to the end) in our old summer home in
Florida. One day in 2000, I happened to be at a flea market where they
had many old books and out of the blue I asked the woman about this particular
book and she knew exactly what I meant. She found one copy of "The
Bunny Book", c. 1951, in mint condition (with the foil binding still shining)
and gave it to me for $6. She told me it wasn't the original edition,
but the third publishing, and that the way to find this out was to look
closely at the corner, near the bottom on the last page, close to the binding,
and there would be a letter corresponding to the edition. You have
to pull the binding ever so slightly to see it, but printed there you will
find a capital letter (A,B,C, etc) which will tell you how far from the
original publishing it was printed. The one I got from her had the
letter "C" there, which meant it was the third printing in that particular
year (1951). When I got home, I checked the last page of the book
I found in Florida, and to my delight, it had the letter "A" printed there,
which meant it was one of the first editions of this particular Little
Golden Book. Comparing the two, I noticed some difference in the versions
(the latter having a slightly different wording from the original, and
the illustration on the page about painting the autumn leaves was
slightly different from the original (which I thought was better).
At any rate, the thought of this little book
and its message has comforted me in many times of grief throughout my life,
and I sincerely hope Ms. Werner knows that her simple story has left an
indelible imprint on the lives of many people, and helped us understand
the nature of our existence. I only wish I could thank her personally.
If anyone could tell me how to, I would.
Let me weigh in with the Bunny Book ... My mom
read it to me (in the early 50's) and I wore the darn thing out because
I was eagerly turning the wonderfully colored pages of eggs and landscapes.
My kids also read and were read to from this book and we've since lost
it. I do recall that there was a dazzling, vivid sunset (or was it
a rise) which the parent bunnies explained to the baby bunnies as Grandpa
Bunny Bunny's final work of art. Our kids were helped to learn about
the finality of all life through this edition. So is it still available?
I'd be interested in purchase if it's the same story I enjoyed.
More Comments about Elves and Fairies
Thank you for the information! It amazes me that
they'd cut short publishing such an apparently popular book. My jaw just
about dropped when I read that the 1999 edition was going for $199.00 on
the Amazon listing. You have a lovely sight!
Jane Werner Watson is my mother's first cousin.
She is in her eighties now and lives in California. In the 1950's
she sent my sisters and me many of her books for Christmas. I
am so glad to find a source for her books again, as nearly everything
we had has disappeared. I still have a beat-up old Elves
& Fairies which was one of my great favorites as a child.
I have a book by Jane Werner that I don't see
on your list. It is Christopher Bunny, illustrated by Richard
Scarry, Simon & Schuster, 1949. I was looking for a value for
the book. Perhaps it should be added to your list.
Help! You are my last hope..like so many other
people here. I had a book of stories and poems that I had between
1950 to 1960 or so, it was a large flat book witha shiny cover with pictures
on it, I don't remember what they were, but the inside of the cover and
front page had a picture of fairies playing in the forsest. I do
remember that the book had a particular story about a bear that is granted
a wish and ends up working in a salmon cannery, this had an illustration
of a bear wearing overalls and shoes that pinched his feet and I also remember
he had a radar antena on? There was a story about a fisherman and
his wife who adopt a mermaid baby, another about a leprechaun and a pot
of gold, and one about a shoemaker. It also had some poem about fairies
come out to play when theres a ring around the moon? I have found many
fairy tale books but not with these stories. It may have been illustrated
by Garth Williams though I am not positive of this. I am hoping for
some kind of help, and it seems that everyone who leaves an inquiry usually
gets some help!
Jane Werner Watson, Giant Golden Book of
Elves and Fairies (now reprinted as
The
Golden Books Treasury of E & F), 1951, 1999. Isn't that
a wonderful book? You'll get lots of answers on this it's on
the "Most Requested" list, but I don't know whether or not it's actually
still in print. (And yes, it was illustrated by Garth Williams.)
The cover and title page were torn off by visiting
children)of younger siblings)who did not know to respect books.
I did not discover the damage until years later when reclaiming the book.
Sadly I don't remember the author, publisher or title. What I have is information
about the book and its remains. The book was most likely published
before the 1950's (when I read it). Also the following authors were
featured: Dorothy Brown Thompson, Mildred Bowers Armstrong, Florence
Page Jaques, Elsa Ruth Nast, Rowena Bennett, Lillian Holmes, Alison Uttley,
William Allingham, Ray St. Clair, Jane Werner, Marjorie Barrows, Margaret
and Mary Baker, Elizabeth Godley, James Stevens, Sheila O'Neill, and Madelaine
Nightingale. The illustrations were/are wonderful and all about pixies
and fairies.
Jane Werner, Giant Book of Elves and Fairies.
This book was a gift from my grandmother to my older brother in the late
50's an has been a treasured part of our library at our cabin. I can't
tell you the hours we spent as kids reading an looking at the wonderful
illustrations by Garth Williams. I am in my 50's and have raised countless
friends childrens on these magical stories. In fact, many of these 'kids'
have children of their own and have expressed interest in finding copies
of this incredible book. When it comes back in print I would love to purchase
several copies as gifts.
The Big Golden Book of Elves and Fairies.
I also grew up with this book. It's funny as I read the comments of others
and look at the cover illustrations, I get teary eyed. I Loved this book
as a child and would like to find a copy. If anyone knows where I can find
one please let me know. Also looking for The Boys and Girls Bookshelf Vol
II, Elves and Fairies, Pub. The University Society. Will buy individual
vol. II or complete set.
I am anxiously waiting for when Elves &
Fairies will be republished - because my 3 next door neighbor kids
(9, 5 & 3 years old) ADORE my old, falling apart 1950s book.
They always go to the bookshelf and pull it out, sit down and turn the
pages in silent rapture with those pictures! I would dearly LOVE
to give them their own new book that won't fall apart. |
ABC
is for Christmas. Illustrated by Sally Augustiny. LGB #108*,
1974.
