Department 56 Villages 2001 by Checkerbee Publishing Inc (2001, Paperback)

This book is invaluable. I was sorry Checkerbee Publishing stopped issuing updates to the Department 56 Village book as it is hands down more user friendly than the new Green Book Value guide which organizes the pieces by year of issue. Now how many know when a piece they are looking for was issued? I spent almost 8 hours finding all the pieces in my small collection in the new Green Book. It is useless to me to take to a store to shop as the year issued is in tiny tiny print next to the bar code which you have to have glasses to read. The company tells me that us cumsumers were polled and the majority asked for that kind of organization. Can't imagine that many of us collectors would want that! The values in the Green Book also are much less than those in the old Checkerbee book. Not sure who has the true values. If the majority of your collection are pieces issued prior to 2001, I highly recommend that you jump at buying this one from Checkerbee Publishing.