Best of
Childrens

1970

Robin Hood (Disney Classics Collection Storybook)


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    With every turn of a page, adventure unfolds to create memories that will last a lifetime.

Mog the Forgetful Cat


Judith Kerr - 1970
    Mog always seems to be in trouble because she is such a very forgetful cat. She forgets that she has a cat flap and she forgets when she has already eaten her supper. But one night, when an uninvited visitor turns up at the house, Mog's forgetfulness comes in very handy!

A Bargain for Frances


Russell Hoban - 1970
    Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?

The Sweet Smell of Christmas


Patricia M. Scarry - 1970
    Join Little Bear as he prepares for the holidays, all the while giving readers a chance to smell six wonderful scents including apple pie, christmas tree, hot chocolate, and more! This delectable treat is a perfect way for families to spend the yuletide season.

Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals


Ed Emberley - 1970
    Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.

Frog and Toad Are Friends


Arnold Lobel - 1970
    Celebrate the power of friendship in these five adventurous stories starring Frog and Toad—a Caldecott Honor Book!From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other—just as best friends should be. Frog and Toad Are Friends is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.The classic Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel have won numerous awards and honors, including a Newbery Honor (Frog and Toad Together), a Caldecott Honor (Frog and Toad are Friends), ALA Notable Children’s Book, Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book), School Library Journal Best Children’s Book, and Library of Congress Children’s Book.

Old Hat, New Hat


Stan Berenstain - 1970
    in full color. "Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. Offers slapstick humor and simple concepts of sizes and shape."--School Library Journal.

Morris Goes to School


Bernard Wiseman - 1970
    After a day of ABCs and 123s, Morris is thrilled with all that he has learned.This classic silly Level One I Can Read is perfect for shared reading with a child.For fans of Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal, or anyone who loves to read silly stories about animals.

The Wump World


Bill Peet - 1970
    The Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle.

The Whingdingdilly


Bill Peet - 1970
    Scamp learns to be content with his dog's life when Zildy the kooky witch turns him into a whing-dingdilly.

No Flying in the House


Betty Brock - 1970
    Annabel never thought it was strange that she had Gloria instead of real parents. Until one day a wicked, wicked cat named Belinda comes to tell her the truth -- she's not just a little girl, she's a half-fairy! And she can do lots of things that other kids can't do, such as kiss her own elbow and fly around the house. But being a fairy isn't all fun and games, and soon Annabel must make a choice. If she chooses to be a fairy, she'll have to say good-bye to Gloria forever. How can she decide between her newly found magic and her dearest friend?

The Tiny Seed


Eric Carle - 1970
    One by one, many of the seeds are lost -- burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new dangers -- trampled by playing children, picked as a gift for a friend. Soon only the tiniest seed remains, growing into a giant flower and, when autumn returns, sending its own seeds into the wind to start the process over again. Eric Carle's eloquent text and brilliant collages turn the simple life cycle of a plant into an exciting story, a nature lesson, and an inspiring message of the importance of perseverance.

The King Who Rained


Fred Gwynne - 1970
    Full color.

Roald Dahl Omnibus: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / James and the Giant Peach / Fantastic Mr Fox


Roald Dahl - 1970
    

The Changeling


Zilpha Keatley Snyder - 1970
    But Ivy was not a typical Carson. There was something wonderful about her. Ivy explained it by saying that she was a changeling, a child of supernatural parents who had been exchanged for the real Ivy Carson at birth. This classic book was first published in 1970. It was awarded a Christopher Medal and named an outstanding book for young people by the Junior Library Guild.

The Princess and the Goblin / Princess and Curdie


George MacDonald - 1970
    Princess Irene and the intrepid Curdie overthrow the kingdom of the goblins with help from the princess's mysterious and powerful grandmother. More than just children's stories, these novels hold deeper meanings for adult readers who are interested in the spiritual life and the battle between good and evil. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.

How to Care for Your Monster


Norman Bridwell - 1970
    Have a new monster as a pet? Worried about how to groom him, what (or whom) to feed him, how to keep him healthy, happy, and howling? Here's all you need to know -- including how to catch your very own Frankenstein, Vampire, Mummy, Werewolf.

Lamont the Lonely Monster


Dean Walley - 1970
    He was hairy and scary on the outside, like other monsters. On the inside, he was good and kind. More than anything else in the world, Lamont wanted a friend.

Fairy Tales and Fables


Gyo Fujikawa - 1970
    These are the stories that all children should experience, that will nourish their young minds and imaginations: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and many more. Some are well known and beloved; others are unfamiliar, but they’re all beautifully written and illustrated. As always, Fujikawa’s characters (human and animal) are endearing and rich in personality. Her stunning images include the ugly duckling looking up plaintively at swans flying in a sunset sky; a lovely princess atop dozens of colorful mattresses (but she can still feel the pea); and tiny Jack chased by a giant large enough to take up nearly an entire spread!

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing


Judi Barrett - 1970
     ...because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! This well-loved book by Judi and Ron Barrett shows the very youngest why animals' clothing is perfect...just as it is.

The Trumpet of the Swan


E.B. White - 1970
    B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trumpet of the Swan, about a cygnet who finds his voice, is now a full-length animated film from Sony. Now younger readers can experience the joy of reading about Louie the trumpeter swan and his friends in these adorable readers with original full-color illustrations. Louie is very popular. Who wouldn't love a swan who can read, write, and play the trumpet? When Louie goes to camp, he meets a boy named A.G. who doesn't like birds, and since Louie is a bird, that means he doesn't like Louie. When A.G. pulls a dangerous stunt out on the lake, he realizes that Louie is a hero, after all.

Fantastic Mr. Fox


Roald Dahl - 1970
    Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would never surrender. But only the most fantastic plan ever can save him now.

Look Through My Window


Jean Little - 1970
    When Emily's parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.

Fish is Fish


Leo Lionni - 1970
    When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected. Friendship truly saves the day in this imaginative tale of a fish out of water.

The Blah


Jack Kent - 1970
    Because Billy feels like a Blah, he creates an army of Blahs with which to play.

Lambert the Sheepish Lion


Bill Peet - 1970
    Sheep, Lambert finds growing up difficult.

I am a Mouse (A Golden Sturdy Book)


Ole Risom - 1970
    I live in a big field near the woods.A friendly wood mouse visits his many friends and neighbors. He talks to trout, ducks, a woodpecker, and even coaxes a shy newt out from his hiding place to say hello. The only animal he is not so friendly with is the owl, from whom he runs and hides. This beautifully illustrated, gentle story is now back in print for a new generation.

Mr. Shaw's Shipshape Shoeshop


Eve Titus - 1970
    The old shoemaker who loved shoes and ships never dreamed he would one day be able to combine both loves by moving his Shipshape Shoeshop to a ship.

The Aristocats


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    With every turn of a page, adventure unfolds to create memories that will last a lifetime.

Blaze Finds Forgotten Roads


C.W. Anderson - 1970
    One day they decide to explore some of the country they have never seen. They agree to take every right turn they come to and see what they will find. After a day of discoveries, they are lost—but Blaze knows the way home!Blaze Finds Forgotten Roads is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and understanding between a boy and his horse.

The Junior Woodchucks' Guide


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    

The Saracen Lamp


Ruth M. Arthur - 1970
    It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of 15 year old Melisande, a girl of Southern France, to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than herself and an English knight and landowner. Melisande takes with her to England a very special lamp, a lamp of gold and jewels, made for her by a Saracen servant in her father's household. The lamp becomes the spirit and treasure of the de Hervey household.The lamp remains at Littleperry Manor, the de Hervey estate, long after Melisande is gone and her children and her children's children are gone. It is more than two hundred years later when Alys appears, clever and vengeful Alys, who is wilfully responsible for the lamp's disappearance and with it the joy of the house.It remains for Perdita, a girl of the present, ill, temporarily crippled, and haunted by the spirit of Alys, to wonder about the past of the house, to find a solution to its problems, and even to uncover the identity of its ghost.

Charlie (Little Golden Book)


Diane Fox Downs - 1970
    After finding less and less food in the alley where he lives, Charlie, a cat, decides to move to the country, where he can drink milk, climb trees, and play Tiger in the Grass.

The Nose Book


Al Perkins - 1970
    A super-simple look at noses of all kind, color, and shape, including their multiple uses and maddening maladies! Illustrations.

The Hilarious Adventures of Paddington: A Bear Called Paddington; Paddington Helps Out; Paddington at Work; Paddington at Large; More About Paddington


Michael Bond - 1970
    

Tales from the End Cottage


Eileen Bell - 1970
    Apple and her dog, two cats, and horse.

The Aristocats: a Little Golden Book


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    

Lisa and the Grompet


Patricia Coombs - 1970
    When she stops to rest in the forest, she accidentally sits on the front lawn of a tiny, furry grompet! The grompet tells Lisa how sad he is that no one loves him enough to tell him what to do. Lisa is delighted to take the little creature home and order him around, and the grompet is happy to have a new home with someone who really cares. Lisa discovers that obeying her parents is a lot easier now that she has a special someone to boss around too!

Elizabeth


Martha Alexander - 1970
    Kate is not very happy with the doll she gets for Christmas until she finds out it does everything a doll is supposed to do.

The Erie Canal


Peter Spier - 1970
    Allen.

Thin Arnold


Joan Chase Bacon - 1970
    Children's book about a young rabbit who never makes it in time for dinner.

The Dolphin Crossing


Jill Paton Walsh - 1970
    A small boat helps the evacuation from Dunkirk.

The House at World's End


Monica Dickens - 1970
    The children and their relatives clash endlessly, and at last Uncle Rudolph allows them to live in a tumbledown old inn he owns: World’s End.

The Teletrips of Alala


Guy Monreal - 1970
    With her unique power to enter the television set and change the course of the programs, Alala creates havoc in the world.

Androcles And The Lion


Paul Galdone - 1970
    A retelling of the consequences following the meeting of Androcles, the slave, with a wounded lion in the forest.

Parakeets and Peach Pies


Kay Nolte Smith - 1970
    A little boy is afraid to ask an important question after his mother describes the havoc created by the appearance of all his pets at the Ladies Literary League luncheon.

A Basket of Surprises


Enid Blyton - 1970
    # The Kitten That Disappeared# The New Cricket Ball [The Beautiful Cricket Ball]# The Ladder That Was Lent# The Helpful Snowman [The Great Big Snowman]# George's Sore Throat [He Was a Bit Too Quick]# Poppy Seeds [What a Funny Thing To Do]# The Banana Robber# Blackberry Tart# Sandy to the Rescue [The Kind Little Dog]# The New Milkman# Belinda's Bicycle# The Twins Go Nutting [How Lucky They Were!]# A Basket of Surprises# The Lost Slippers# Brownie, the Family Pony [He Belonged to the Family]

A Horse Came Running


Meindert DeJong - 1970
    After the tornado, everything was hurt, and what's least hurt had to help what's really hurt. In the days that followed, Mark had to face up to the real meaning of love and responsibility - and death.

The Illustrated Treasury of Poetry for Children


David Ross - 1970
    

Hi, All You Rabbits


Carl Memling - 1970
    Tells what sounds and activities are typical of rabbits, ducks, horses, birds, pigs, cows, chicks, sheep, cats, pups, and boys and girls.

The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawm


Norman Hunter - 1970
    He's the craziest genius you'll ever meet and he's about to cause havoc in Pagwell with his wild inventions . . . The lovable Professor Branestawm, with his five pairs of spectacles and his pockets full of all manner of things, is back!Norman Hunter's irrepressible humour packs every page and the illustrations (by the well-known cartoonist, George Adamson) entirely capture the eccentricity of the Professor and the hilarity of his incredible adventures.

Tops and Bottoms


Lesley Conger - 1970
    A lazy goblin and an industrious farmer match wits in this rollicking adaptation of a Northamptonshire folk tale.

How Spider Saved Christmas


Robert Kraus - 1970
    Spider thought his Christmas presents to Fly and Ladybug were unappreciated until the gifts were used to prevent a disaster.

The Strangest Thing Happened. . .


Ethel Barrett - 1970
    People who obeyed God and got blessed; people who disobeyed God and got rapped soundly on the knuckles. Some of them learned, some of them refused to learn. But they all had one thing in common and it was this: Somewhere, somehow, God stepped into each of their lives. At just the right time. And in just the right way. And when He stepped in, the strangest things began to happen...

The Ruth Ainsworth Book


Ruth Ainsworth - 1970
    Moon, " "A Cradle for a Fairy."

The Jesse Owens Story


Jesse Owens - 1970
    

Hattie, the Backstage Bat


Don Freeman - 1970
    But as the play opens, she can'tresist the chance to join in the fun--and make a grand entrance as the play'snew star. Illustrated.

Peter and the Penny Tree


Thomas James - 1970
    This easy reader contains only 53 different words, repeated often to help the young reader learn word recognition and interest in reading.

Walt Disney Presents The Haunted Mansion: Read Along


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    Walt Disney's The Haunted Mansion (Part 1) 5:092. Walt Disney's The Haunted Mansion (Part 2) 1:363. Sound Effects: The Haunted House 2:584. Sound Effects: The Dogs 1:09

The House That Jack Built


Rodney Peppé - 1970
    A cumulative nursery rhyme about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.

When He Comes Again


Mirla Greenwood Thayne - 1970
    Thayne walks a small boy through the Christmas story, explaining the significance of traditions such as the Christmas tree and star, and then links Christmas to when Christ comes again.

When Grandpa Wore Knickers: Life in the Early Thirties


Fern G. Brown - 1970
    What was it like, growing up in the Thirties? This informal history of social customs is planned to tell about life at home and school, play, trips, and transportation--a child's view of the Thirties.

Heroes of Folktale and Legend


Vladimír Hulpach - 1970
    Retold for children are a selection of folk tales and legends from England, Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, the Balkans, Russia and Finland.Beautifully illustrated in colour.

Hail Columbia


Patricia Beatty - 1970
    Thirteen-year-old Louisa recounts how the visit of her suffragette aunt changed the lives of her family and the whole town.

A Childs Story of the Prophet Joseph Smith


Deta Petersen Neeley - 1970
    

The Story of The Ugly Duckling (Disney: 24 Page Book)


Walt Disney Company - 1970
    Read Along Record

Joey Goes to Sea (Maritime)


Alan Villiers - 1970
    He was a kitten of great personality and his story is full of humor. This new edition of a family classic will appeal to children and catlovers everywhere.

Sea Monsters Of Long Ago


Millicent E. Selsam - 1970
    Text and illustrations introduce aquatic reptiles that swam in the oceans more than 70 million years ago.