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O'ER MOOR AND FEN (CASSELL'S "EYES AND NO EYES" SERIES BOOK XII)
Written by R. Cadwallader Smith.
Stock no. 1831560
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

A Nature book for children with exercises. Grey limp cardwraps. Eight colour plates and b/w photos. 80 pages. A few marks and scuffs to covers, corners lightly rubbed/worn. Name in pencil to free front endpaper. Text block browned. One or two marks to contents. A lovely copy considering it is almost 100 years old.

THE LORD'S PRAYER AND OTHER PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN
Written by Hilda I. Rostron. Illustrated by J.H. Wingfield.
Stock no. 1331110
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 612. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Easy to read text. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light stain to lower edge of rear cover. A couple of foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly marked, tally 120 to rear flap.

THE ZOO
Written by M.E. Gagg. Illustrated by Barry Driscoll.
Stock no. 1331063
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1967. Good condition.

Ladybird Series 563. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bold, easy to read text. ISBN: 072140054X. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge worn. Grubby marks to prelims and child's heavy pencil writing to rear pastedown has been erased (but still evident). Contents are clean.

TOPSY AND TIM'S PICNIC
Written by Jean Adamson; Gareth Adamson. Illustrated by Jean Adamson; Gareth Adamson.
Stock no. 1831143
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Topsy and Tim Handy Books. Small, staple-bound cardwraps. Pictorial covers. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0216905443. Covers lightly edge-rubbed, a few minor marks to front cover. Last couple of pages have a dampstain to lower margin. A few grubby marks to contents.

THE SONGS THE LETTERS SING BOOK TWO
Written by S.N.D.. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1830710
Published by The Grant Educational Co. Ltd.. 1st 1939. Good condition.

Blue cloth spine. Brown pictorial paper boards. Colour and b/w pictures. Easy to read text. 40 pages. Boards a little grubby and marked. Text block browned. Lower stitch of binding loose so contents move a little. Contents lightly browned. Top & tail of inner spine worn. A good working copy.

MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Anne Anderson; Nina K. Brisley; E. Dorothy Rees; et al..
Stock no. 1330122
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Good condition.

Front cover shows two babies playing with building bricks and an orange ball. 12 full-page colour illustrations with a short sentence of text below. 7 full pages of easy to read text. Spine and corners are worn, covers edge rubbed. Rear cover is slightly grubby. The binding has been repaired and the pages are now quite 'stiff' to open. There is paper damage to the margins of the last two pages (an illustration and text) but the illustration is not affected.

BOBBY ROBIN AND THE WORM
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1329140
Published by Morrison & Gibb Ltd.. Very good condition.

The 8th Buffin Book. Small format. Black pictorial stiff card wraps. Colour illustrations. Pale page browning else contents clean. Light rubbing to covers.

LITTLE FOLKS FARM BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328796
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

A cloth book, printed fabric. 8 bright colour pictures of farmyard animals with small sentence of text below. Covers very lightly browned and centre pages browned. Old price in pencil to top margin of front cover (no attempt has been made to erase it).

THE BABY'S CATALOGUE
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1328768
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The lives of five families through the course of a day - and a night - showing a vast array of baby paraphernalia. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bold, easy to read text. ISBN: 0722657773. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with very slight loss to top of spine.

CALAMITY
Written by Camilla Ashforth. Illustrated by Camilla Ashforth.
Stock no. 1328656
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial laminated boards. A sweet simple story with delightful water colour illustrations throughout. 10 x 9". ISBN: 0744525780. Top of spine is quite badly bumped, causing some slight creasing to page margins. Dustwrapper is faded to spine with crease at top of spine.

MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1828595
Published by Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A board book for young children. Front cover shows young child in highchair wearing a blue gown and eating snacks, yellow background. Blue cloth spine. 12 colour illustrations with text below plus full pages of text. Text in green. Undated. Front board lightly rubbed at edges, rear board grubby and rubbed at corners. Spine a little browned and slightly worn at top & tail. A few grubby marks to contents but generally a nice example.

MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; M. Morris; et al..
Stock no. 1828594
Published by Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A board book for young children. Front cover shows young girl in blue & red dress, blue shoes, on swing with a flowering shrub and thrush singing to one side. Green cloth spine. 12 colour illustrations with text below plus full pages of text. Text in green. Undated. Board covers rubbed at edges, scuffed and grubby, stained to rear board. Board contents are slightly grubby at edges and rubbed at corner tips.