collectors and collecting

Describes the many unusual things that people collect and gives, wherever possible, the history of each particular collection.

Suggests activities for collectors interested in more than 25 different collectibles such as rocks, keys, buttons, and menus.

Harvey's parents hope to break their son's habit of collecting free things when he wins the free services of a gentleman's gentleman for a month.

Harvey's love of anything free continues to lead him into countless escapades and dilemmas.

Even though she doesn't always find a use for the things she collects, an old woman continues to fill her house with interesting items.

Franklin and his friends get tired of eating Fly Krispy cereal in order to get the enclosed trading cards.

When Johnny has his eleventh birthday, his parents decide he is old enough for dancing classes, but too old to collect bottle caps any more.

Recounts the girlhood of the woman who made many of the important fossil discoveries in the early nineteenth century, yet never received the credit she deserved.

Alfred so loves books that he spends much of his life collecting every one in his town, and when his collection is complete he sets out to read each tome, while the lives of the townspeople grow dull and dreary.

Describes different collectible items, how to get started collecting, where to find collectibles, and how to display a collection.