By Edgar Osborne

This catalogue is record of early English children's books in the Osborne Collection, Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Libraries. Some three thousand books, covering the period between 1566 and 1910, have been selected from the collection to be recorded in this catalogue.

By Lloyd E. Cotsen

The Cotsen Children's Library - the historical collection of children's illustrated books and related manuscripts, drawings, prints, ephemera, and educational toys housed in Princeton University's Firestone Library - has published the complete holdings of its collection in a two-volume catalogue. The first volume describes the first half of the collection's twentieth-century imprints, entries A-L and records 6,695 items out of nearly 14,000 twentieth century imprints in over thirty world languages. Volume two finishes with the second half, entries M-Z. Among the significant illustrators whose work is catalogued; Mitsumasa Anno, Raymond Briggs, Jean de Brunhoff, Sibylle Van Olfers and Maurice Sendak. Graphic design movements and picture book genres are also included. The catalogue includes a preface by Harold Shapiro and an essay about Lloyd E. Cotsen by Andrea Immell. Each volume over 700 pages and lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 images each, reproduced whenever possible at actual size, over a hundred of which are in full color. Printed and bound to the highest standards in full Japanese cloth and stamped in gold.

Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Catalogue for the exhibition and sale of original artwork by Maurice Sendak held in Japan during 1996 and 1997

By Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by John Tenniel

An 1865 printing re-described and newly identified as the Publisher's "File Copy" with a revised and expanded Census of the Suppressed 1865 "ALICE" compiled by Selwyn H. Goodacre, to which is added, a short-title index identifying and locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for Alice and Looking-Glass. Catalogued by Justin G. Schiller. Privately printed for The JABBERWOCK, 1990.

By Lewis Carroll; Martin Gardner
Illustrated by John Tenniel

The definitive edition of The Annotated Alice includes: Hundreds of additional Martin Gardner annotations and recently deciphered Carroll puns and riddles, crisp reproductions of the original and beloved John Tenniel illustrations, a dozen new, recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches and a filmography of every Alice-related film, by Carroll scholar David Schaefer.

By Mark Twain; Michael Patrick Hearn
Illustrated by E.W. Kemble

"All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography. Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the national bestseller The Annotated Wizard of Oz, has done equal justice to this great American novel. A Twain literary sleuth and an authority on children's literature, he considers all the literary, social, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Twain's classic tale of Huck and Jim's trip down the mighty Mississippi. In lively and fascinating annotations, Hearn's notes draw on everything from letters, manuscripts, and contemporary newspapers to the author's own frequent revisions and notes, various critical responses to the publication, and much previously unpublished material.

By Charles Dickens; Michael Patrick Hearn
Illustrated by John Leech

Charles Dickens' legendary ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has prepared a sumptuous new edition of the holiday classic. This latest contribution to the popular Norton Annotated Series delves into the engrossing history of the book's evolution and its initial publication just in time for Christmas 1843.