Children's Picturebook Price Guide, 2006-2007: Finding, Assessing, & Collecting Contemporary Illustrated Books by Linda Zielinski and Stan Zielinski (2006, Paperback)

Key Details
Author:	Stan Zielinski, Linda Zielinski
Language:	English
Publisher:	Flying Moose Books Llc
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0977939405
ISBN-13:	9780977939404

Size
Length:	479 pages
Height:	11.3 in
Width:	8.8 in
Thickness:	1 in
Weight:	38.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Do you unknowingly have $1,000s in children's picturebooks? Provides values for nearly 23,000 books, covering more than 700 contemporary illustrators. Presents an overview to collecting first edition children's picturebooks--clearly and concisely details the six key factors impacting a book's collectibility and value. Describes common collecting strategies, how to identify first editions, and lists the most valuable picturebooks by decade from 1930 to the present.

The price guide documents values for nearly 23,000 books, covering over 700 illustrators. Not just a price guide?the book's first 100 pages provides an overview to collecting children's picturebooks. This overview includes a brief history of the development of the picturebook, and concludes with an explanation for why today is the golden era of the picturebook. Chapter 2, ?Factors Affecting Collectibility? provides details about the six key factors which impact a book's collectibility and value. Subsequent chapters describe collecting strategies; identifying first editions; and also lists of the most valuable children's picturebooks, categorized by decade.