Showing all 12 results
Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod. The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…
Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…
Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…
Methuen and Co, 1965. First edition. Hardback 16cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Bod on BBC followed the Coles’ classic Fingerbobs and…
Edited by Neil Astley, published by Bloodaxe Books and featuring the best children’s poems from The Evening Chronicle Poetry competition. This 64 page book contains 10 of Elaine’s poems plus work by comedy writer and performer Dan Maier, actress Colleen Prendergast and the late, great Iain Pigg. Condition: This copy is previously owned with slight…
Odhams, 1970. 31cm x 22.5cm, colour photo boards illustrated throughout with colour and black and white images. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin gave us Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers. This beautiful TV tie-in shows you how to make a felt Clanger toy. A friend of ours was lucky…
Ursula Moray Williams was a Children’s author and this title is one of her earlier books. First edition, lacking dustwrapper, published by Harrap, 1937. 20cm x 14.5cm blue boards. 254 pages. Colour frontispiece and black and white drawings illustrated by the author. Condition: Lacks dustwrapper, there is foxing in the pages and page 33 is…
Kaye & Ward, 1972. First edition thus of this paperback reprint of title first published in hardback in 1966. Edmund Ward ‘Starting to Read’ Books Number 4. 19cm by 15cm, 47 pages. Noggin is a kind king, married to kind queen Nooka but Nogbad the Bad is unkind. Condition: Bottom edge has a dent and…
Published by Puffin (Penguin) Books, Puffin Post was the magazine of The Puffin Club, which was the brainchild of Puffin Books’ editor, Kaye Webb. The club was born in 1967 after Kaye persuaded Sir Allen Lane, the owner of Penguin Books, that the club would make children into adult readers. This edition from 1974 measures…
Frederick Warne, 1968. Third reprint of the 1965 Revised Edition. Brown boards, 14.5cm x 9cm, 223 pages with b&w plus colour illustrations throughout. Condition: Slightly faded and worn boards but clean contents in somewhat soiled, edge-worn, chipped and torn dustwrapper. See photos.
Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…
The Poetry Society, 2021. 17cm by 12cm colour illustrated laminated wraps, 36 pages. Anthology of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2020 featuring Lauren Lisk, Leandra Li, Daniel Wale, Libby Russell and more. Condition: as new.