Many of our customers love tried-and-true vintage books -- those which reflect old-fashioned values, innocence in worldview, a simpler lifestyle, or a detailed approach to fine illustrations. We've created this category for them! Please note that these titles are published prior to the mid-70s and may provide a health risk to young children. If you are a book collector, or you need more information about titles in this category, please feel free to contact HSLB!
A Pocketful of Seasons Author: Foster, Doris Van Liew
Reading Level: PK-2
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Good
Follows a little boy named Andy through his outdoor adventures during each season. In his pocket, he collects iconic treasures from each season. Illustrated by Talivaldis Stubis.
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A biography of the seaman and explorer who helped settle Jamestown and whose explorations of Virginia and New England helped pave the way for colonists. Easy-to-read chapter book.
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A biography of the New World explorer who unsuccessfully sought gold in Florida and led the first expedition of white men across the Mississippi River.
96 pages in 11 chapters; copyright 1964; illustrated by Henry Gillette
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A biography of the aviatrix who, as an adolescent chose to be an individualist; as a flier, was both the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone and the first to cross the United States alone; and, as a practical scientist, was interested in the effects of flight on the human mind and body.
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This thorough biography sweeps from the battlefields of the Civil War to the court of the Emperor of Austria, from the Spanish-American War to the Galveston flood. Clara Barton was called the angel of the battlefield in three wars -- two of them on foreign soil. Then, finding peacetime existenc...
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Seven little ducks adopt Andrew the gander of Blue Barns Farm as their mother. Andrew teaches the little ducks all about the farm until their season comes to fly away.
Helen Sewell (1896-1957) was a children's book illustrator and author. She won a 1955 Caldecott Honor for The Thank...
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As the story opens, sleuth team Tommy and Tuppence Beresford make a dutiful visit to Tommy's Aunt Ada at a nursing home. Ada dies there peacefully soon after, but when her cohort Mrs. Lancaster vanishes, Tuppence grows suspicious. Her intuition proves correct.
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Born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, the future Pulitzer Prize winner left school at thriteen, worked as wheatpicker, sceneshifter, dishwasher, bricklayer, rode the freights, and served eight months in the Spanish-American War. From these youthful experiences, Sandburg gained a deep knowledge o...
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MARY DYER practiced passive resistance against the established order and a city was plunged into riot; DEBORAH MOODY built a community based on sharing and equal rights, but had to flee when invaders set it ablaze; ANNE HUTCHINSON defied the laws of two nations in defense of personal liberty; PEN...
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A comprehensive and straightforward biography of our nation's great leader written in Foster's usual conversational style. In 93 pages, Foster covers his family, training as a surveyor, interest in manners, marriage, move to Mount Vernon, and leadership in the revolutionary war. Lovely illustra...
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A vintage biography of George Washington, from his boyhood to his presidency, designed to interest young readers. Seven liberally illustrated chapters in large print. Illustrated with lovely color and black-and-white pictures by William Hutchinson.
NOTE: Spine has been mended wi...
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The miracle of Helen Keller is that so much has been written about her and something remains to be said. She was remarkable for her perceptivity as an infant; sullen and intractable after her illness; resentful at first of Anne Sullivan's discipline, and then insatiable in her discovery of the wo...
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An easy-to-read, large-print chapter book about the lady who became an advocate of women's and children's rights, and as a result, founded Hull House. Addams broadened her goals to include legislative protection for women and children, advocating women's suffrage, a juvenile court system, labor ...
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A biography of the thirty-ninth President, who arrived at the White House via a peanut farm, the Naval Academy, and the governorship of Georgia.
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Taking place ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out, by Louisa May Alcott, is the third and final book in the Little Women trilogy. Originally published in 1886, two years before Ms. Alcott's death, Jo's Boys follows the lives of the young men readers came to love and cheri...
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