Steve Gabany: 240 books

This beautifully-illustrated children's picture book highlights the life of children in New York City at the start of the 20th century. Carolyn Wells has written short, descriptive rhymes of such events as Thanksgiving, a baseball game in Harlem, girls vying for the title of May-day Queen, April Fools'...

The Circus Procession takes us back to a time when circuses paraded through towns and cities before setting up the Big Top. The procession was intended to increase ticket sales. This children's book sets the procession to rhyme, and includes all the acts you'd expect to see at a circus. The Circus...

This is a book that helps children learn their ABC's while learning about birds at the same time. Twenty-three of the 26 letters of the alphabet are accompanied by a full-page, full-color drawing of a bird whose name starts with that letter, such as Robin for "R.". Each letter is also accompanied...

This charming little picture book uses an apple pie to teach children the alphabet. Apparently, Greenaway couldn't figure out something for "I," since it's not included. This picture book was published in the 1886, and is still considered a classic for young children. Including the...

Twenty-nine short stories about Little Jack Rabbit, Chippy Chipmunk, and their friends, including Old Mr. Heron, Dr. Quack, Granddaddy Bullfrog, Danny Fox, and Billy Breeze. Perfect for bedtime stories and read-along. Four beautiful color illustrations by H. S. Barbour. David Magie (or MacGhie)...

A poor woodcutter discovers the hidden treasures of a band of robbers. He survives great danger, but his brother is killed by the robbers. Ali Baba gets his revenge by murdering all of the robbers except the leader of the band. After one of his female kills the leader, he marries her to his son and...

This is the classic story of the beauty and the beast. It's short, but makes a great bedtime story. It was originally published in French, but was translated to English and other languages soon after. What really sets this version apart are the beautiful, full-page, full-color illustrations. Even...

Hugh Pendexter (January 15, 1875 - June 11, 1940) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Pendexter began his career as a humorous writer; some of this early work was anthologized in Mark Twain's book, Library of Humor and Wit. Pendexter's main body of fiction consisted of historical novels...

This is a romance where the outcome is most unclear and much in doubt until almost the end. It is somewhat predictable and most unusual at the same time. Mrs. Annie Green, unhappily and unaccountably married to a much older, nasty man, is attracted to and by Mr. Barker, a journalist who is fired practically...

The cowboy has long been romanticized. We seem to feel that the "good" cowboy must be a heroic figure who always has a likeable but bumbling sidekick, and who, against all odds, saves the fair maiden, the bank, the stagecoach payroll, and the entire town, simultaneously, with snap shots...

In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. This book relates that adventure...

This is a narrative of cowboy life in a less-sensational portrayal, which is unusual for this period. Written by a Texas cowhand who turned preacher, Will S. James wrote about the cowboy as he really was, describing cowboy life in considerable detail. W. S. James, born 1856, has been described...

In this feminist denunciation of workplace conditions for women in the early 20th, Zona Gale, suffragist, newspaperwoman, and regional writer, reveals the dark side of women's lives on the American Plains. In the midst of all this is Cosma, a young woman learning about romance and the vagaries of...

While this interesting and exciting story is complete it itself, so far as action and incident go, it continues the narrative of the three Russell brothers who have been met in the earlier volumes of the series, and presents vivid pictures of the experiences of American heroes under the brave and...