1970's I Can Read Books, Parents' Magazine Press, Weekly Reader etc

***All are hardcover



Newest additions to the list 6/5/16

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972) stated first ed. HC w/ DJ

Weekly Reader/I Can Read Books

• Me! A first book of Poems for children 1970 $4 sold via ig
• McBrooms Ghost 1971 (Has some smudge marks) $4
• Katy No-Pocket 1972 (Emmy Payne/H.A. Rey) (HC) $6
• Say Hello, Vanessa (Hoban) 1979 $4
• The Case of the Crunchy Peanut Butter 1975
• Arthur's Honey Bear (Hoban) 1974 $3
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1978 (Judi Barrett/Ron Barrett) $9.99 min.  Keeping this one. (I may have others) (ebay comp $12 shipped)
• Frog and Toad Together 1972 (Arnold Lobel) Unsure of price.  Keeping for now to use for display.
• Dooly and the Snortsnoot 1972 (Jack Kent) x2 (One sold on etsy on 1/27/16 for $24.95) IG price would be $17 but I would relist on etsy for $24.95 in not. 
• A Colt Named Mischief 1979 (Sandy Rabinowitz) $15
• The Horse in Harry's Room 1970 (has a torn Dust jacket) (Syd Hoff)
• Mr. and Mrs. Button's Wonderful Watchdogs (Roger Duvoisin) 1978 x2 $3-5 (both sold on IG)
• The Giant Jam Sandwich 1972 (I have a few) (John Vernon Lord/Janet Burroway) $10
• Everybody Knows That! 1978 (Susan Pearson/Diane Patterson)1978
• An Animal for Alan 1970 (Edward R. Ricciuti/Tom Eaton) 1970 Very clean $7
• A Bargain for Frances 1970 (Hoban) $7 (very clean)
• Arthur's Honey Bear 1977 (Lillian Hoban) $3 x2
• Arthurs's Christmas Cookies 1972 (Lillian Hoban) $4
• Simple Pictures are Best 1977 (Tomie De Paola) $4
• Walter the Wolf 1975 $4
• Mooch the Messy Illustrated by Ben Shecter 1976 $6.50
• Two is Company 1976 Illustrated by Giulio Maestro $3.50
• Blue Moose 1975 SOLD via Instagram
• The Candy Egg Bunny (Lisl Weil) 1975 $10-$14 Etsy $5 IG (1 has name inside front cover) x2
• There are rocks in my socks said the ox to the fox 1979 (Patricia Thomas) x3
• Bernard of the Scotland Yard 1978 $3.50
• The Tyrannosaurus Game (Tomie De Paola) 1976 $3.50
• I'm Terrific (Kay Chorao)1977 $3.50 SOLD via Instagram
• Green Grass and White Milk (Aliki) 1977 $3 
• Helga's Dowry A Troll Love Story (1977 Tomie de Paola) $18.99 Excellent cond.
• Energy from the Sun (Melvin Berger/Giulio Maestro 1976)
• Who goes there Lincoln? (1975 Dale Fife/Paul Galdone)
• Puss in Boots (1976/Paul Galdone) Childrens Choice Book club x2 $4
• Mine's the Best (1973 Crosby Bonsall) Clean but has last name in sharpie inside front cover
• Much Bigger than Martin (1976 Steven Kellogg) 
• The Red Balloon (Albert LaMorisse--Not sure copyright for this reprint, thinking 1979)
• Monsters from outer space (1978 William Wise/Richard Cuffari) No writing 
• Tales of Mr. Pengachoosa (1973 Caroline Rush/Dominique M. Strandquest) $7
• Morris Goes to School (1970 B. Wiseman) HC w/ DJ --DJ is clipped $19.99 etsy?
• "Stand Back," said the Elephant, "I'm Going To Sneeze!" (1971 Patricia Thomas/Wallace Tripp) $4
• Night Noises and Other Mole and Troll Stories (1977 Tony Johnson/Cyndy Szekeres) $3 Name in front cover.
• And I Mean It, Stanley (1974 Crosby Bonsall)
• The Case of the Scaredy Cats (1971 Crosby Bonsall)
• Cowboys What do they do? (1972 Carla Greene/Leonard Kessler) End Pages have writing. This could be cute as a display book for a cowboy themed room. 
• Little Fox Goes to the End of the World (1976 Ann Tompert/John Wallner)
• The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches (1978 Alice Low/Karen Gundersheimer) Child. Choice
• My Mother Sends Her Wisdom (1979 Louise McClenathan/RoseKrans Hoffman) 
• Owl at Home (1975 Arnold Lobel) Looks Clean
• Eugene the Brave (1978 Ellen Conford/John Larrecq) Looks clean
• Ira Sleeps Over (1972 Bernard Waber) VGC. x2 different versions. 
• An Eskimo Birthday (1975 Tom D. Robinson/Glo Coalson) Crayon on last end page.
• Santa's Moose (1979 Syd Hoff) $8 etsy (ebay comp $7.98 shipped)
• The Animals Who Changed Their Colors (1979 Pascale Allamand) Inside is clean--exterior has a lot of scrapes and bumps around edges. 
• Little Toot on the Mississippi (1973 Hardie Gramatky) Looks pretty clean. Just a past due stamp on front cover.   I don't believe it is an ex-lib.
• Freckle Juice (1971 Judy Blume) $7
• Mary Alice Operator Number 9 (1975 Jeffrey Allen/James Marshall) Childrens Choice
• Frog and Toad Together (1972 Arnold Lobel)
• Miss Nelson is Missing! (1977 Harry Allard/James Marshall) 1-Ok but has some writing, 2nd copy pretty good.
• Gus and the Baby Ghost (Jane Thayer) x4 (ebay comp $14.99 shipped) $8 etsy 
• Georgie and the Noisy Ghost (1971 Robert Bright) $7.95 etsy
• Come Back, Amelia Bedelia (1971 Peggy Parish/Wallace Tripp)
• Joey and the Birthday Present (1971 Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton/Evaline Ness) inside is clean, exterior boards are worn. 
• Big Max in the Mystery of the Missing Moose (1977 Kin Platt/Robert Lopshire)
• How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky (1975 Mirra Ginsburg/Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey) Cover is more worn than others. Inside cover has ID info. 
• Mr. Yowder and the Lion Roar Capsules (1976 Glen Rounds) Clean. NO DJ if there was one.
• Serendipity (1974 Stephen Cosgrove/Robin James)
• Scarlet Monster Lives Here (1979 Marjorie Weinman Sharmat/Dennis Kendrick)
• Max (1976 Rachel Isadora) Looks super clean
• The Sick Story (1976 Linda Hirsch/John Wallner)
• Hickory (1978 Palmer Brown)
• Rabbit Finds a Way (1975 Judy Delton/Joe Lasker)
• Mother Rabbit's son Tom (1977 Dick Gackenbach) $5
• The Enormous Crocodile (1978 Roald Dahl/Quentin Blake)
• Most-of-the-time Maxie (1974 Adelaide Hall/Hilary Knight) $5 ig
• Clarence and the burglar (1973 Patricia Lauber/Paul Galdone) $4 ig 
• The Laughing Dragon (1970 Kenneth Mayhood) $7-9

Lets Read-and-Find Out Science Books

• What Happens to a Hamburger (1970 Paul Showers/Anne Rockwell)
• Fossils Tell of Long Ago (1972 Aliki)
• Plants in Winter (1973 Joanna Cole/Kazue Mizmura) 
• The Skeleton Inside You (1971 Philip Balestrino/Don Bolognese)

Weekly Reader Chapter Style Books

• Twelve Bells for Santa (Crosby Bonsall) 1977 $3
• Strangers' Bread (Nancy Willard/David McPhail) 1975 $4
• Freckle Juice (Judy Blume) 1971 $7
• Tales of Mr. Pengachoosa (Caroline Rush/Dominique M. Strandquest) 1973 $7
• The Case of the Crunchy Peanut Butter (Godspeed) 1975
• The Tree House Mystery 1973 (Carol Beach York/Reisie Lonette) 4$
• Hester the Jester (1977 Ben Shecter) HC w/ DJ 
• The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper (1975 Jean Van Leeuwen/Steven Kellogg) 
• Zed and the Monsters (1979 Peggy Parish/Paul Galdone) No writing 
• Hattie Rabbit (1976 Dick Gackenbach) HC w/ DJ --No writing 
• The Horse in Harry's Room (1970 Syd Hoff) HC w/ DJ Not sure on price...
• Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way (1972) Name inside front cover

Sweet Pickles (Richard Hefter)

**I am trying very hard to complete a full set A-Z so these are duplicates.

Large Books
Happy Birthday Unicorn (ebay comp $14 shipped)
Quail Can't Decide (ebay comp $12 shipped)

• Moody Moose Buttons
• Goose Goes Off x2
• Kiss Me, I'm Vulture
• Elephant Eats the Profits
• Quail Can't Decide x2
• Yakety Yak Yak Yak x3
• Very Worried Walrus (Larger sized book)
• Stork Spills the Beans

Sweet Pickles Strawberry Books (Books are numbered)

• 1) one bear two bear
• 2) a noise in the closet 
• 5) some more most
• 7) the strawberry mother goose
• 8) noses and toes
• 9) an animal alphabet
• 10) the strawberry counting book
• 11) things that go
• 14) the strawberry picture dictionary
• 17) jobs for bears
• 18) the sticky bear book of safety watch out!
• 19) lots of little bears a stickybear counting book 
• 22) neat feet 
• 23) babysitter bears

Parents' Magazine Press

• One for the price of two 1972 (Anita Lobel) $3
• Mog the Forgetful Cat 1972 (Judith Kerr) $9 sold via ig, have another avail. 
• Allumette (Tomi Ungerer) 1974 $10 low. Sold via IG 
• Around the House that Jack Built 1972 $5.25
• What do you play on a summer day? 1977 $3
• The Apple War 1973
• Miss Suzy's Easter Surprise 1972 (Arnold Lobel) (Only Ebay Comp was $19.99) $10 IG (Very clean) SOLD via IG 
• The Gigantic Balloon (1975 Ruth Park/Kilmeny & Deborah Niland)
• Maxie (1970 Mildred Kantrowitz/Emily A. McCully) (Ebay comp $12.99 shipped)

• How far will a rubber band Stretch? (1974 Mike Thaler/Jerry Joyner) 
• Molly and the Giant (1973 Kurt Werth and Mabel Watts/Kurt Werth) Looks clean
• The Secret Kitten (1972 Anne Mallett) $19.50 amazon price Name inside cover 
• The Dead Tree (1972 Alvin Tresselt/Charles Robinson) looks clean
• The Hungry Fox and the Foxy Duck (1978 Kathleen Leverich/Paul Galdone)
• Rabbits New Rug (1979 Judy Delton/Marc Brown)
• Sand Cake (1978 Frank Asch) (Ebay comp $22.99 shipped)
• Socks for Supper (1978 Jack Kent) Extremely Clean. (Ebay comp $24.99 shipped)
• More fables from Aesop (1974 Jack Kent) $8 
• But No Elephants (1979 Jerry Smath) Clean (Ebay comp $14.95 shipped)
• Cranberry Thanksgiving (1971 Wende and Harry Devlin)
• Fish Story (1977 Robert Tallon)
• Moose Goose and Little Nobody (1974 Ellen Raskin) $6
• Tinker Tales (1973 Mary Dawson/Jacqueline Chwast) No writing
• Ultra-Violet Catastrophe! (1975 Margaret Mahy/Brian Froud)
• Humpty Dumpty's Holiday Stories (1973 Kelly Oschsli) VGC
• The Hat (1970 Tomi Ungerer) $10-$15
• Santa Makes a Change (1970 Sol Chaneles/Jerome Snyder) $9-$16

Other

• Alexander and the terrible, horrible no good very bad day, 1972, No DJ
• (with dJ) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 1972 (sixth printing 1974) (Judith Viorst/Ray Cruz) $24.99?  Unsure, might keep. 
• My Days are Made of Butterflies Bill Martin Jr. 

• The Odds and Ends Playground (1970 Norah Smaridge/Pat Porter) Ex lib but very clean.  The only way I know it's ex lib is the stamps sharpied out and "discarded" written inside cover.  Otherwise, looks like a normal book.  Very crisp. $10
• Caves (1976 Roma Gans/Giulio Maestro) (Read and find out science book)
• Chinese Eyes (1974 Marjorie Ann Waybill/Pauline Cutrell) Adoption book 
• Monday, Monday I like Monday (1970 Bill Martin Jr./Dora Leder)
• Old Mother Middle Muddle (1970 Bill Martin Jr./Don Madden)
• My Dog Your Dog (1978 Joseph Low) HC 
• The Mouse and the Song (1974 Joseph Low)
• No Kiss for Mother (1973 Tomi Ungerer) Stated first ed. HC w/ clipped dj (prob. about $75 etsy)
• Cinderella (1978 Paul Galdone) HC w/ DJ - One on etsy for $22
• Girls and Boys Book of Etiquette (1971 Barbara Hazen)

New Zoo Revue Books

• Mostly Happy Henrietta (1973) x2 HC
• Just Ask Charlie