Description
Near Fine illustrated dust jacket with pig holding balloons, a mylar dust jacket has been added. Near Fine condition binding is gold cloth over boards, illustration of pig running in grass in red, red lettering on spine. Small mark on front near spine. Color illustrations throughout by Susanna Natti. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.8″ tall x 6.5″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Esther is a breathtaking cheer-leader. Smitten with her tiny black toes and the way she yells “Sooma-lacka, sooma-lacka,” Harold decides he must win her love. Think BIG! says his lawyer, so Harold devises a very Big Plan.
It includes:
a green flag
a flashing scoreboard
a blimp
a love song
and hundreds of balloons.
Does the plan work? Not perfectly or even the way it’s expected to. But thinking BIG!, as Harold realizes, is sometimes not the only way to go….”
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Murphy has brought together some the oldest of the four million or so inventions granted patents by the U.S. Patent Office… reader guess what the contraption was intended for, with the answer and some further explanation supplied on the page following…. The book is very nicely put together and should appeal youngsters beyond the third to fifth grade levels for whom it is intended.”
