Search Results: REVIEW from Windy Hill Books

NY: Facts on File, 1996 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine, No dust jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Decade by Decade. Foreword by Jane Yolen. 420 pgs, hardbound boards. This book puts the literature of childhood in its historical context, the facts AND the fictions. Discusses individual key books in some depth & others in shortened, concise reviews..

SD: HBJ, (1989) Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Review Copy. Review slip laid in. 30 pgs, boards. Introduces children to the beauty of historic American design & folk art as it presents the letters of the alphabet..

NY: Scholastic, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition, Review Copy. Illustrated by David Fielding. Review slip laid in Fine in a Fine dustjacket. "Traces the history of Acacia Terrace in Sydney, Australia through the lives of one family living there from the 1860's to after World War II.".

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. Review slip laid in. 304 pgs, boards. Story of a 14 year old girl whose mother has just died, her best friend's mother is implicated in the assasination of President Lincoln & she is forced to live with an uncle she suspects of stealing corpses for medical research..

Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NY: Arcade, (1989) FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. Review slip laid in. FINE in FINE dustjacket. 126 pages, boards. A boy who has lost his mother goes to live with his grandmother and meets a sensitive, old-fashioned girl who he believes to be his mother as a child..

NY: HarperCollins, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. 206 pages, boards. Story of a nineteen year old aspiring actress who suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of a long- suppressed memory that surfaced in acting class..

NY: Harper & Row, (1989) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. Review slip laid in. FINE in FINE dustjacket. Illustrated by Lisa Desimini. 32 pages, boards. A mysterious & rhythmic lullaby for young children..

Boston: Little, Brown, (1992) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION REVIEW COPY. 200 pages, boards. A young Turkish boy moves with his family from their rural village to Ankara where they become trapped in a shantytown existence. FINE in FINE dust jacket..

NY: Scholastic, (1989) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illus by Donald Carrick. FIRST PRINTING, REVIEW COPY. 32 pgs, boards. Imaginative paintings in full color illus this intriguing Arabian Nights tale. VERY FINE in VERY FINE dustjacket..

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Review copy, review slip laid in..

NY: Crown, (1996) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dust jacket. First Edition, first Printing. Illustrated by author, 32 pgs, pictorial boards. Alfonse the goose can't find Little Bird when they play hide-and-seek. Author's first book is a pleasing tale of a well-loved game..

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991 Book. Illus. by Barry Moser. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Author and Illustrator. First Edition Review Copy. 108 pages, boards. The definitive collection of stories about Jahdu, the trickster. Lovely watercolors enhance the collection. SIGNED and inscribed by both author and illustrator..

New York: Knopf, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. SIGNED by Author. 193 pages, boards. Biography of a slave who escaped to Boston in 1854. Boston Globe-Horn Book Winner in Non-Fiction category, 1988..

NY: David McKay, (1962) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illus by James Johnson (FIRST EDITION) REVIEW COPY. 152 pgs, reinforced cloth. A young Ranger in the Virginia National Forest learns about wildlife watching a mother elk protect herself & her fawn fro m dogs & boars. FINE in lightly rubbed dustjacket..

San Diego: Harcourt Brace, (1998) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY. FINE in FINE dust jacket. 266 pages, boards. Two teenagers are dragged by their parents into a cult that believes the world will end in the year 2000. The two young people must decide what they believe as they await the foretold end. Told in alternating chapters & voices by the two teens..

NY: Holiday House, (1996) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY.Review slip laid in. Illustrated by Patience Brewster. FINE in FINE dustjacket. 32 pages, boards. Nora tells Bear she is going to Grandma's house to get him a baby sister but she is nothing like the sister he imagined..

NY: Holiday House, (1999) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by the author. FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY. Review slip laid in. FINE in FINE dustjacket. 32 pages, boards. Describes in word & picture the physical characteristics, diet & nighttime activities of the beaver, an expert swimmer and builder..

NY: Harper & Row, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION REVIEW COPY. 180 pgs, boards. Henry & Zelda find out their beloved former teacher, Miss Applebaum, is dying..

NY: Harper & Row, 1989 Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Review Copy. 180 pgs, boards. Henry & Zelda find out their beloved former teacher, Miss Applebaum, is dying. Package of Burpee Begonia seeds "For Miss Applebaum " enclosed..

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Review Copy. 169 pgs, boards. 11 yr old Belle finds her uncomplicated world turned upside-down when her beloved baby brother dies..