The prices for these out of print books have been updated a little but not as much as some may prefer. The reason for this is that the FIAR Team sincerely desires each family to utilize libraries, thrift stores, used book stores and garage sales to augment their personal libraries with out of print titles rather than spending many hard-earned dollars to purchase just one book. Another reason that we list these books here is so FIARowers will recognize them in used book stores, library sales and elsewhere.

The prices that we have set forth on this page are what we consider to be fair and reasonable. We are not responsible and refuse to take responsibility for the higher prices being paid by many for these same titles. The intention from the beginning was for FIAR-users to utilize their libraries and save money; it is absolutely impossible for us to contradict that intention by recommending these same families spend over "normal" homeschool budgets in order to obtain all the titles.

Steve and Jane Lambert acquired in 2001 the last OOP book they didn't own and recommend not spending more than today's new book price for any out of print title. Thank you for understanding and consider (pray!) carefully before spending large amounts of money for only one, generally in used condition, out of print book.

Sincerely, The FIAR Staff

Top prices should always refer to hardcover and good condition!
Book sizes are as follows: approximate height x width

B4 FIAR

• Yellow Ball by Molly Bang. Some bookstores are selling this online as used.
  Price: $15.93 hardcover.
  
• My Blue Boat by Chris L. Demarest.
  © 1995 Harcourt, Brace & Company
  30 pages (unnumbered), one line of text per 2-page spread.
  Cover Description: Title at top with author's name underneath. House and yard in background with large blue sailboat in foreground. A little girl is riding in the sailboat. Color behind title and author's name is golden yellow (like a sunset), green yard between house and water.
  While playing with a blue boat in the bathtub, a girl imagines she is on an ocean voyage.
  Newly out of print. Library edition is supposedly still available though Amazon says it won't ship for 4-6 weeks.
  Good price? New book price for hardcover, $6.00 or under for paperback.
• The Red Carpet by Rex Parkin
  © 1948 Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York
  ISBN 0-02-770020-8
  7" x 7 ¾", 42 pages (unnumbered), HC
  Cover Description: Children’s Choice Book Club book: yellow cover with light blue inside; title in yellow, picture of motorcycle police driving down red carpet as it unfolds. Alternate: Trumpet Club Special Edition: Cover is blue with all other information the same. Measures 8 ½" x 9 ¾", sc). Availability: Found often.
  Good price? $5.00 and under.
• The Quiet Way Home by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Bonny Becker
  © 1995, A Bill Martin Book, Henry Holt and Company, New York
  ISBN 0-8050-3530-3
  10 ¼" x 8 ½", 24 pages (unnumbered), HC
  Cover Description: Father and daughter in a field of dandelions. (green grass/blue sky). Title in orange.
  Availability: Fairly hard to find.
  Good price? $20.00 and under in hardcover. Went OOP in 1998.
• Jenny’s Surprise Summer by Eugenie (Little Golden book)
  © 1981 Western Publishing Co., Inc., Racine WI
  ISBN 0-307-02047-9
  23 pages (unnumbered), HC
  8" x 6 ¾"
  Cover Description: Little Golden Book spine, blue cover with title in yellow box; picture of Jenny on beach with two kittens and feeding seagulls.
  Availability: Now that we know it’s a Golden book, it’s been found fairly easily!
  Good price? $2.00 and under. Write or call Golden Books and let them know you would like to see this title back in print:
  1-888-732-3263
  Golden Books Publishing Co., Inc.
  10101 Science Drive
  Sturtevant WI 53177-0903

FIAR

VOLUME 1

All books are back in print!

VOLUME 2

• The Giraffe that Walked to Paris by Nancy Milton, illustrated by Roger Roth
  © 1992 Crown Publishers Inc., New York
  ISBN 0-517-58132-9
  9 ½" x 10 ¾", 30 pages (unnumbered), HC w/ DJ
  Cover Description: Giraffe being led down a crowded street in celebration; light blue sky; title stretched across sky in upward arc.
  Availability: Very hard to find.
  Good price? $40.00 for hardcover.
• Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson
  © 1938 The Viking Press, New York
  Library of Congress Catalog Card #38-27870
  9 ¼" x 6 ¾", 65 pages (unnumbered), large print, SC, black and white drawings
  Cover Description: tartan-colored cover (green, red, yellow, black); title in white at top; picture of Scottish boy. Alternate: 10 ¼" x 7 ¼" HC, all other information is the same.
  Availability: This book shows up more often than most of the other OOP's.
  THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT!
• Babar, To Duet or Not to Duet based on characters by L. De Brunhoff;
  © 1990 JellyBean Press, New York
  ISBN 0-517-051958
  12" x 9 ½", 44 pages, HC, large print
  Cover Description: peach-colored cover; Babar in green at top with rest of title underneath in black; picture of Babar and the Old Lady at grand piano and picture of Babar with his son who is in bed below.
  Availability: Very hard to find.
  Good price? $30.00 (new condition) and under.
• Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle
  © 1934 Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York
  No ISBN
  9 ¾" x 7 ¾", 41 pages (unnumbered), HC, pen and ink drawings
  Cover Description for Weekly Reader Children’s Book Club: off white color, title in brown at top, shows boy and girl carrying sack and basket down mountain (three colors on cover: off-white, brown and blue)
  Availability: Shows up often in used book stores, garage sales and curriculum swaps.
  Good price? $10.00 and under and preferably UNDER.
• All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen
  © 1991, Little, Brown and Company
  28 pages (unnumbered), text on one side only. Cover Description: Blue border around ocean scene. Two small children are standing in the water with a toy boat, holding hands. In the distance, ships are seen in the water. This is a Reading Rainbow book. Title is in cursive at top of ocean scene.
  Availability: Newly OOP in 2001. Still available "used" through Amazon and other websites.
  Good price? No more than current HC or SC prices. This book is still fairly easy to find as it was in print for several years before going OOP.
• Gramma's Walk by Anna Grossnickle Hines
  Some bookstores are selling this title used.
  Price: $14.00 hardcover.
  

VOLUME 3

• Andy and the Circus by Ellis Credle
  © 1971 Thomas Nelson & Sons, Camden, NJ
  ISBN 0-8407-6164-3
  10" x 8 ¼", 55 pages, HC
  Cover Description: off-white cover with color drawing of Andy riding bicycle ("no hands") holding pie in one hand and jar of tadpoles and basket in the other hand. Background shows two boys looking through fence and two circus giraffes looking over fence. Title in red.
  
• The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, illustrated by Ted Rand
  © 1990 E. P. Dutton (Penguin Books), New York
  ISBN 0-525-65015-6
  8" x 10 ½", 28 pages (unnumbered), SC
  Cover Description: blue cover, title in orange-yellow across top, picture of five wild horses galloping through water.
  Availability: Apparently no longer available from Troll Book Club.
  Posted by a Rower in July, 2003: Troll went out of business (though they are launching a "new" business called Troll-Carnival book club this fall). The lady tried to be very helpful but could not find the book even by ISBN.
  Good price elsewhere? $15.00 or under.
  
• Henry the Castaway by Mark Taylor, illustrated by Graham Booth
  © 1972 Atheneum (Connecticut Printers, Inc., Bloomfield, CT)
  ISBN 0-689-70442-9
  About 9" x 10", 42 pages (unnumbered), HC
  Cover Description: blue and green trees and a river on back and front, picture of Henry in canoe with dog; title in yellow at top/center of cover and author/illustrator in orange. This book comes in small and larger sizes.
  Availability: VERY hard to find
  Good price? $40.00 and under in hardcover and good condition.
• The Finest Horse in Town by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Susan Gaber
  © 1992 HarperCollins Publishers, New York
  ISBN 0-06-024151-9
  8 ¼" x 10 ¼", 31 pages, HC w/ DJ
  Cover Description: yellow with title in red across top, picture of old-time store with fancy horse and two ladies in hoop skirts. THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT! Purchase from the FIAR catalog OR from Purple House Press.
  
• Warm As Wool by Scott Russell Sanders, Illustrated by Helen Cogancherry
  © 1998 Econo-Clad Books
  ISBN 0-61-312247-X
  Cover Description: Yellow background with woman holding a lamb surrounded by sheep.
  Availability: Recently went out of print so not too hard to find.
  Good price? $15.00 - 20.00 for either paperback or hardback covers.
• The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl
  THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT! Purchase from the FIAR catalog OR from Purple House Press.

VOLUME 4

• Hannah's Cold Winter by Trish Marx
  © 1993, Carolrhoda Books Inc.
  ISBN 0-8761-4772-4
  Cover Description: Orange buildings with blue and green onion dome roof. Winter scene with a large barren tree. This book is only available in hard cover.
  Availability: Hard to find.
  Good price? $30.00-40.00 for hardcover.
• Arabella by Wendy Orr and Kim Gamble
  © 2001, Angus & Robertson
  ISBN 0-2071-9164-6
  Cover Description: Large sailing ship model on a window ledge in front of a large window surrounded by knick-knacks. This book is available in both paperback and hard cover. Availability: Not too hard to find.
  Good price? $5.00-10.00 for paperback, 10.00-20.00 for hard cover.
• Cowboy Charlie by Jeanette Winter
  © 1995, Harcourt Young Classics
  ISBN 0-1520-0857-8
  Cover Description: Beautiful watercolor of a cowboy on horseback tending cattle looking at the night sky. This book is available in hard cover only.
  Availability: Semi-hard to find.
  Good price? $20.00 for hard cover.