Allison Rides the Rapids

Overview:

  • Title: Allison Rides the Rapids
  • Author: Nina Alexander
  • Year: 1998
  • ISBN-10: 1575131218
  • Publisher: Magic Attic Press
  • Price: $5.95
  • Pages: 75+[3]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Allison Rides the Rapids
  • Notes:
    • First printing per number line.
    • Date of publication from Amazon.com.
    • Based on a line of products, including dolls.
    • Book for young girls in which four girls (the multi-racial "The Magic Attic Club") dress up in costumes and are whisked away into an adventure in the past or present. With this book, a fifth girl is added.
    • For girls seven years and up.
    • Full-color full-page, half-page, or spot illustrations on almost every page.
    • Spot illustrations by Rich Grote, and all others by Gabriel Picart.
    • Cover uncredited, but Picart' style fits that of the cover art.
    • Book edited by Judit Bodhar.
    • Each book contains a three-page "Diary" entree in which the lead character gives up a what-ever-happened-to afteward. These pages are on faux lined paper and are unnumbered.
    • According to inner front cover, there are There were at least thirty-eight of these chapterbooks, none seem numbered, they were written by different authors, but not under a house name.
    • A complete list of these chapterbooks and their authors can be found here: http://www.iblist.com/series1583.htm
    • Printed on acid-free paper.
    • Hardback ISBN: 1-67513-122-6.
    • Library edition hardback (turtleback) ISBN: 1-57513-141-2.