Reading Bear Publications: 82 books

This is the complete six-volume Fairview Boys Series by Frederick Gordon, which was a pen name used by Edward Stratemeyer. Included in this edition of the series is the second volume, "Fairview Boys on Eagle Mountain." This novel is very hard to find outside of rare book stores. The six...

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903. The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown. The book followed Potter's hugely...

The Tailor of Gloucester was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his...

Three beloved tales from Beatrix Potter: The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Complete and unabridged, beautifully illustrated in full color. A perfect gift for children and for those who remember Potter from their childhood days. #1: The Tailor...

This children's book is about when things first happened to animals around us: when Mr. Bluebird won his beautiful coat, for instance; and when Mr. Moose first lost his horns. The 16 short tales are just perfect for bedtime or for children learning to read. This edition of the book contains...

This is a biography of General George Armstrong Custer. Certainly, all of us remember Custer's defeat, and death, at Little Big Horn, in 1876. However, perhaps fewer of us know that Custer attended West Point, participated in Civil War battles, and was an officer on General George McClellan's staff....

This is the fourth and last volume in Burgess' "Boy Scout Books," preceded by "The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp," "The Boy Scouts on Swift River," and "The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail." In this story, Burgess inserts the Scouts into the life of the trapper, who...

Published in 1915, Kasba is a fascinating story of Chipewya and Eskimo life in the Hudson Bay area. It centers around a young woman named Kasba, or White Partridge, who is trying to gain her independence from her family. The book includes adventures of survival; customs, friendships and love among...

The accomplished author of Pirates' Hope, a clever adventure, has given us that rara avis a thriller satisfies our literary taste. In the truly plot we find a vigorous young New Yorker is determined to test certain friends not to mention his sweetheart by taking them on a cruise and by "faking"...

"The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush," a shrewd Western boss all men will appreciate, is the central character of the novel of that name by Francis Lynde. The author of "The Price" shows him manipulating political forces in the storm of reform that threatens his control. Senator Sage-Brush...

The Alger book was originally entitled Dan, the Detective, and a first edition of Dan, the Detective is one of Alger's rarest. When it was reprinted, the title was changed to Dan, the Newsboy. Dan and his mother are poor. Dan valiantly struggles to make money by selling newspapers on the streets of...

Empire Builders concerns a young superintendent of a line running from Denver into the Rocky Mountains. Stuart Ford is an ambitious fellow, who hatches a plan to extend the line to eventually connect Chicago and the West Coast. His chief competitor is the Transcontinental with its eye on hauling freight...

These tales of the little creatures of the Wide Green Meadows have given endless delight to generations of children. In this collection Peter Rabbit hears the story of how old Mr. Squirrel became thrifty; how it happens Johnny Chuck sleeps all winter; how Drummer the Woodpecker came by his...

Tells of the far West in the days of the buffalo and wild Indian. The ranch was in a great basin surrounded by the Rocky Mountains. Other books in the series are Jack Among The Indians, Jack In The Rockies, Jack The Young Canoeman, Jack The Young Trapper, Jack The Young Explorer, and Jack The Young...