Cool Stamps: Creating Fun and Fascinating Collections!

by Pamela S. Price

This book contains facts about collecting stamps that will inspire the reader to start his or her own collection. Readers will gain a working knowledge of this hobby which includes background history of stamps, famous stamp collectors like Franklin D. Roosevelt, types of collections, types of stamps such as definitive, commemorative, special, semipostals and Cinderella stamps, research and resources, the best places to find, buy or trade stamps, how...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596797746
• ISBN13: 9781596797741
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Checkerboard Library
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Nicely done, but pretty basic.

This has a resaonably attractive cover and it came in a library binding, for durability. But there wasn't enough meat in it to make it a decent reference that kids will come back to again and again.