Stan Zielinski First Edition Identification The Biggest House In The World; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1968 Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $140 VG+ Essential Identifying Point – DJ Front dust jacket flap price is “$3.95”. Back DJ flap lists three books, each followed by reviews: Swimmy, Tico And The Golden Wings, and Frederick. … Read more
First Edition Identification Fish Is Fish; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1970 Picturebook Price Guide Value – $130 Fine [Note: We inadvertently omitted this book in 2006-2007 price guide.] Essential Identifying Point – DJ Front dust jacket flap price is “$3.95”. Back DJ flap lists six books, each followed by one review: Swimmy, … Read more
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, … Read more
First Edition Identification 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 … Read more
First Edition Identification Tico And The Golden Wings; written and illustrated by Leo Lionni; Pantheon; 1964 Picturebook Price Guide Value – $160 VG+ Essential Identifying Point – DJ Front dust jacket flap price is “$3.50”. Back DJ flap has short Lionni bio, followed by “Swimmy”, then six reviews. Back dust jacket is absent the LCCN. … Read more
Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification How The Grinch Stole Christmas; written & illustrated by Dr. Seuss; Random House; 1957 Junior Literary Guild Edition – somewhat rare (not in Younger/Hirsch Seuss Guide). Value is difficult to determine, being perhaps a book club edition, however unsure as to distribution, since the front and back endpapers are almost … Read more
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 … Read more
Newbery Medal Book Illustrators Created a web page of the eighty-one Newbery award winning books with cover art or pictures from one of the illustrators covered in the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide. To our knowledge, this is the first time such a cross-list has been published. See table at: Newbery Awards With Illustrations The table … Read more
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification Animals Of The Bible, selections by Helen Dean Fish, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop; Frederick Stokes; 1937 1938 Caldecott Medal Picturebook Price Guide Value – $1600 VG+ Essential Identifying Point – DJ Dust jacket: Lathrop misspelled ‘Lathop’ on DJ spine. Essential Identifying Point – Book Book spine: Lathrop mispelled ‘Lathop’. Title … Read more