Search Results: Children's Nonfiction Books from The Owl at the Bridge

Browndeer Press / Harcourt Brace [c1999]. "First edition". First Edition. Hard Cover. [37], [2] p., color illus., 28.5 cm. Brief biographies in verse of the early lives of Amelia Earhart, Mary Jane McLeod, Violet Sheehy, Rachel Carson, Sacajawea, Ida Lewis, Harriet Hanson, Wilma Rudolph, Wanda Gág, Kate Shelley, Pocahontas, Maria Mitchell, Golda Mahovitch, and Frances Ward. There is a Select Bibliography at the end. Pictorial dj; VG+. 37915x.

London, Hodder & Stoughton [1913]. Hard Cover. [48] pages, 5 color plates; 21 cm. Vg/ illustrated boards. Stock#NS0292.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston / Riverside Press, Cambridge [c1954]. "Second printing, 1956'. Hard Cover. 72 p., color illus.; 28 cm. A child's introduction to astronomy. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black; minor wear but child's rubber stamp on flyleaf, some pencil marks, and pencil writing on rear flyleaf; no dj; good. stock#40911.

NY, Whittlesey House/ McGraw Hill, 1962. Hard Cover. 159 p., illus., 25 cm. Explains the political forces as well as the battles of the war. Stock#29696. Good+/ dj good.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday [1969]. Hard Cover. [31] p., illus. & portraits (part color); 28.5 cm. Series: Art for Children. A brief biography of this French artist accompanies color reproductions and analyses of fifteen of his paintings. Stock#40654. Vg/ dj fair, tears from use.

N.Y., M. Evans, c1985.. Hard Cover. 175 p. illus., maps, 22 cm. The Great Adventurers series. Biography of Henry Morton Stanley, 1841-1904. Stock #29,138. Vg/ dj; vg. Africa, exploration.

N.Y., Seabury, 1967. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 242 p., 21.5 cm. Presents Milton as a figure deeply involved in the life of his time. Stock# 32,900. Vg/ dj vg.

Junior Literary Guild/ Knopf, NY [1943]. First Edition. Hard Cover. 'First Edition.' 110, iv p., index, plates (photos); folding map neatly mended with archival tape; 20.5 cm. 'Making things is great fun, especially when the results are truly beautiful. This fascinating book is the story of Canadian girls and boys and their parents who have enjoyed this same fun since the days when the first families lived there...' Stock# 34,238. Vg, decorative blue boards/ no dj.

Harry N. Abrams [NY, c2000]. The smallest bird's accession of bravery and flight. Hard Cover. [26] pages, color illus., 30 cm.; color pictorial dj; ex library with marks; VG. Stock#35343.

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925, c1916. Hard Cover. xi, [3], 243, [8] leaves of plates, illus., 20.5 cm. Contents: Coaly Bay, the outlaw horse -- Foam, or the life and adventures of a razor-backed hog -- Way-Atcha, the coon-raccoon of Kilder Creek -- Billy, the dog that made good -- Atalapha, a winged brownie -- The wild geese of Wyndygoul -- Jinny, the taming of a bad monkey Frontispiece and plates facing p. 22, 80, 100, 136, 144, 150 and 160. Stock# 102,631. Good+/ no dj