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THE ALMOST ALL-WHITE RABBITY CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by H.B. Vestal.
Stock no. 1328689
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story about a remarkable cat and the remarkable people who lived in her apartment building; a happy book written by a master storyteller. Orange boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Full page b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0718819985. Spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers and a musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and foxed on verso.

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THE EASTER CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by Mary Dinsdale.
Stock no. 1328688
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st UK 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 110 pages. Family tensions interwoven with Millicent's longing for a cat of her own. ISBN: 0718818776. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to prelims and to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a "Lutterworth Children's Author" sticker to front panel.

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FOUR FRIENDS IN OAKAPPLE WOOD
Written by Jenny Partridge. Illustrated by Jenny Partridge.
Stock no. 1328685
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Decorated endpapers. Colour illustrations to text throughout. Unpaginated. 6.5 x 9.5". ISBN: 0437661857. A couple of light foxspots to front endpapers. Dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and half of front panel, top front corner of wrapper is lightly creased.

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MY GARDEN BOOK
Written by Joan Gale Thomas. Illustrated by Joan Gale Thomas.
Stock no. 1328684
Published by A.R. Mowbray & Co. Limited. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

First Books For Children series. Brown cloth spine, blue pictorial paper boards. Pink illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrations, 47 pages. Spine and corners edge rubbed and worn. Cloth spine slightly rubbed at ends and lightly discoloured. There is a slight musty smell to the contents.

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SCRUFFY THE LITTLE BLACK HEN
Written by Cicely Englefield. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield.
Stock no. 1328683
Published by John Murray. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition.

White pictorial boards. Lovely colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers are a bit grubby and marked, spine browned and rubbed. Price cut from lower corner of front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

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I SAW THREE SHIPS
Written by Elizabeth Goudge. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1328682
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A delicate parable of Christmas time. Red mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 70 pages. ISBN: 034004151X. Light foxing to textblock. Price-cuty wrapper is foxed, slightly grubby and has biro scribble to front panel.

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CATKIN
Written by Antonia Barber. Illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
Stock no. 1328681
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Catkin is a cat so small that he can sit on the palm of a man's hand. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Large format. ISBN: 074452573X. Bump to top of spine of book and wrapper.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TUG-OF-WAR
Written by Letta Schatz. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328680
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Oblong format. Full page colour illustrations. Hippopotamus tugged and Elephant tugged. The rope grew tighter - but nothing happened! ISBN: 0370015037. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to textblock but contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn with large tears and slight loss.

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MR PLUM'S PARADISE
Written by Elisa Trimby. Illustrated by Elisa Trimby.
Stock no. 1328679
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

White pictorial boards. Colour pictures to every page. A new life began for Mr. Plum on the day he decided to turn his dreary backyard into a garden. ISBN: 0571106463. A few tiny nicks to lower edges of covers. Contents fine. Dustwrapper has a small piece missing to top of spine and a large tear to front panel.

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WINNIE-THE-POOH A POP-UP BOOK
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard; Chuck Murphy.
Stock no. 1328678
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1990. Very good condition.

Winnie-the-Pooh in pop-up form with decorations after the style of Ernest H. Shepard adapted by Chuck Murphy. Blue pictorial glazed boards. First story is Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees. Paper engineering by Keith Moseley. ISBN: 0416498809. Foxing to contents else clean. Pop-ups and moveable parts all complete and working. Pale browning to spine and front cover.

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WHAT MADE TIDDALIK LAUGH
Written by Joanna Troughton. Illustrated by Joanna Troughton.
Stock no. 1328677
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 2nd 1986. Nearly fine condition.

A lively legend from Australia, retold by Troughton. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Second edition (first published 1977). ISBN: 0216904315.

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DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME
Written by James Gurney. Illustrated by James Gurney.
Stock no. 1328676
Published by Dorling Kindersley. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A Land Apart From Time where dinosaurs and humans live peacefully together. Oblong format. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0751370002. Some very slight fading to lower cover edges. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is very slightly sunned to spine.

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