Collecting Childrens Picturebooks

First Edition Identification

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1969

1970 Caldecott Honor

Picturebook Price Guide Value - $220 VG+

Essential Identifying Point – DJ

Front dust jacket flap price is “$3.95”.  Back DJ flap lists five books, each followed by one review:  Swimmy, Tico and the Golden Wings, Frederick, The Biggest House in the World, and The Alphabet Tree.  Back dust jacket is absent the LCCN.

Essential Identifying Point – Book

Front and back boards are red; front board has small frontal image of Alexander and Wind-Up mouse; back board is solid red.

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Frederick; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1967

1968 Caldecott Honor

Picturebook Price Guide Value - $260 VG+

Essential Identifying Point – DJ
Dust jacket flap price is “$3.50”.  Back DJ flap has short Lionni bio, followed by “Swimmy”, with two reviews, then Tico And The Golden Wings, with three reviews. Back dust jacket is absent the LCCN.

Essential Identifying Point – Book

Front and back boards are white; front boards has small frontal image of Frederick; back boards has small back image of Frederick.  Seven lines on copyright page, as follows:

© Copyright, 1967, by Leo Lionni
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions, Published in New York by Pantheon Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by
Random House of Canada Limited.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Library of Congress catalog card number:  AC 66-10355

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First Edition Identification

Swimmy; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1963

1964 Caldecott Honor

Picturebook Price Guide Value - $300

Essential Identifying Point – DJ
Dust jacket flap price is “$3.50” and back dust jacket is absent the Standard Book Number (SBN).

Second state book has same dj price, however has 9 digit SBN on DJ back.

Essential Identifying Point – Book

Front and back cover image same as dust jacket, and with green cloth spine.  No SBN on copyright page.

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First Edition Identification

Madeline, written & illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans; Viking, 1939

1940 Caldecott Honor Award 

Children's Picturebook Price Guide Value:  $4,000 VG+ 

Essential identifying point
Title page:  Line with “Simon & Schuster” followed by line with “1939.” 

Non-essential
DJ flap price "$2.00" 

The myth has propagated on the internet that the first printing book includes an error that was corrected in subsequent printings, with 12 girls ‘breaking bread’ instead of 11 (with Madeline in the hospital, there is supposed to be only 11 girls dining).  This “12 girl error” was used in many, many subsequent printings, and is therefore not a method to identifying a true first printing.

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