Description
Poor dust jacket, price clipped, many tears and pieces missing. The good binding is green cloth over boards, with dark brown illustration on the cover, dark brown lettering on front cover and spine, shelf wear corners bumped and wear. End papers have a illustrations. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Lee Townsend lovely illustrations can be found throughout the book.
About the book:
AMERICAN CARAVAN by FRANCES FROST Pictures by Lee Townsend
THE rollicking Pettigrew’s — Dad, Mom, Juniper, eight and pigtailed, and Pete, freckled and ten — journey through all of the 48 states, gathering animal friends as they go.
Dad has decided that it is high time his un geographical crew learned about their own country, so he loads them all into Bedelia, the ramshackle car, and with the trailer and the cat, Matilda, they embark on their travels.
Everybody has fun — and learns the geography and natural wonders of the United States, and some of the story of its growth and history as well.
As they bounce through he States, several additions are made to the Pettigrew Home-Growing Independent Zoo. There is Salvation, the toad from South Carolina; Henry, the baby alligator from Florida; Myrtle, the turtle from South Dakota; Honey, the lizard from Texas and Whether, the hitch-hiking dog from Idaho.
Frances Frost, author of LEGENDS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, tells this story of the Pettigrew’s in the fascinating form of a rebus in verse. Lee Townsend, the well known American artist, has illustrated it with hundreds of charming pictures in color.
