Flat Stanley is looking for a book! His own book, first issued in 1964, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. He won't find a nice copy!  It's a very rare book. Every day we receive emails from people searching for childhood books.  I'm sorry but we no longer research emailed book queries. Please read this page carefully and you may find some alternate ways of searching for your book yourself. You can also post your query on the Comment section below. Since I personally moderate Disqus Comments daily, I will see any query you post and will answer if I am familiar with the book. However, there are several contributers to this page who are more knowledgeable about modern books than I am. Searching for a Book Online Selling One or Two Books Finding and Valuing an Older Book Describing a book for your query Followed by a Comments section, which you may use to post a query. Our Old Children's Books Search: First, it's worth trying our own   About 3/4 of our children's books, are on this site. 

Although only about 500 have pictures, almost all contain plot descriptions and Keywords (tags). These can be searched using the Description and Keyword field or the simple search on the website. We are specialist children's booksellers. There are better sources on the net for inquiring about most children's books, especially readers, series, modern, or mass market books. Please try the links below before contacting us: Absolute Best: Loganberry Books Loganberry Books home page. Select "Nostalgia" from the menu. Look through other people's queries and Solved Mysteries; post your own book query. See this Loganberry page for children's storybooks or anthologies: Loganberry Books Anthology Page, It's in there somewhere: ABE Books Advanced Search For best results use only: Title, Author, Date Range, and Keywords. You will be able to limit your search further once you reach the results page. This is the best book search engine on the net, from a huge Canadian company originally started by booksellers.

Millions of books of all kinds from dealers all over the world, some not found in libraries.tidmarsh curtains Most of the English language books ever published: WorldCatdouble curtain rods 120-170 lists entries from catalogues of libraries in English speaking countries around the world. allen + roth 36-in to 72-in antique white metal single curtain rodYou should limit your search at least to Format:Book, and Audience:Juvenile. palais grommet top curtainYou can do this on the advanced search page or once you arrive at the results, using the left hand column, as with abe. tab top curtains 240cm drop

Often you can find more about the content of a title by going to an individual library holding. wendy curtains rotherham(Because you won't get as many duplicate titles, Worldcat works better for common titles than Abe or Amazon.) Ask the experts: Steve Santi For a Little Golden, Elf, or similar book, try the forum on: Images for a picture. The colour option on Google is working better and better. It's a real help. also, something about the quality and the layout makes IDs easier.  Amazon and Google pictures are not accurate though, so use the "Seller Supplied Pictures"  (not the Stock pictures) on Abebooks for specific editions. (Look in the left hand column to limit your search to these.) A few words can help: Put the words in quotes. Use only one or two, essential, easily-spelled, keywords. Try this sample Google search:   "I think I can"  train . Look up your book, click on the picture, then look in the blue box for "Have one to sell?" and click on "Sell yours here."

Amazon's instructions for selling are very clear. As a non Amazon Pro seller, you will now (2/2013) be able to list a book not found on Amazon. Please follow the directions so Amazon's mixed-up duplicate listings don't get any worse than they already are. You can probably do much better than the "Pro's"! Advanced Search to find a price. Then double check on Amazon because prices there are sometimes higher.  Amazon's Search is really not set up for out of print books. Condition, especially the presence of a jacket if called for,  and publication data are extremely important, but just record what you see, don't try to grade or ascertain edition and printing. The more care you put into describing your books, the more likely you are to sell them. Note: We do not purchase books online, sight unseen. Please do not offer them to us. We are happy to assist you in finding a half-remembered book from the 1930s  or before. Our email address is on the Contact Us page. We do not run a formal Book Search and we will not order books for you, but we'll try to point you in the right direction.

For a more modern book read the suggestions above or post a Comment/query on this page.. We never value a book over the net, nor do other reputable booksellers. If you have an older book which seems to have value, you might want to look at our page Buying and Selling Children's Books. Look through the suggestions below. If the process seems too complicated, we are pleased to recommend an very experienced children's specialist bookseller who does formal book searches and keeps a want list for customers. dba Jeryl Metz, Books 697 West End Ave, #13A New York, NY 10025-6921 The latest possible year of publication, i. e. before (date). Your estimate as to the range of possible publication dates. Picture book or children's novelAn older family book? - Anything at all you remember about the book: -Illustrations: the quickest way to ID, the hardest quality to describe. Separate plates or in text? Other illustrators the pictures call to mind?

Choose your search words carefully: Unusual words really help: wallaby works better than bear as a search word. Names which could be spelled in various ways are hard to search; Peatie Peety Petey Peetie Peaty Words which could be hyphenated or not also take time, especially with older books which may follow different conventions: dog house, dog-house, doghouse Avoid abbreviations, they could be spelled out or not: Dr/Doctor. Avoid possessives, although sometimes it doesn't matter. See also our Links for Collectors in the Collector's Corner. POST YOUR BOOK QUERIES BELOW. Guidelines: This forum is monitored by the owner of this site, Old Children's Books. Only a few book sleuths are whitelisted on this forum. All other pending posts are reviewed individually and approved at least daily. Please understand that direct contact information and/or commercial solicitations will be removed from your post. * Post only bookID-related posts or links.