Big little books


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Big little books

Books that were 31/2 x 41/2 x 1 inches or more in thickness and contained adventure stories primarily intended for boys.
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The wide array of toys at both spots -- especially at Woolworths -- were named at the time, "Big Little Books."
The 94 cover illustrations on books, dust jackets, magazines, pulp magazines, comics, Big Little Books, and British and French publications depict the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in different styles throughout their history.
Antiquities, fine art paintings, stamps, coins, and books (except for children's books like Big Little Books) are not priced.
Other than a couple of Big Little books, he'd had it longer than any other book.
Old textbooks, dog-eared kids' Golden Books, outdated reference books, fatty-foods cookbooks, Big Little Books, Reader's Digest Condensed Books, books of every description.
IN THE 1 930s and 1 940s there were the Big Little Books. Thick little volumes, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches with a captioned picture across from each page of text, and selling for a dime, they were influential in teaching children to read.