Description
Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, price-clipped. Dust jacket has wear at edges and chipping on spine and top of back panel. The Very Good condition binding is gold paper over board, black-clothed backed, with illustration of several kids marching, pulling a wagon as their dog follows. The boards have slight shelf-wear, corner-wear, edge-wear. Illustrated end papers. Writing on front free-end paper. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A few pages have fingerprint marks. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration. The binding is tight. The book measures 6.7″ tall x 5.5″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Since the publication in 1952 of the now classic A HOLE IS TO DIG, children and adults have eagerly awaited another book of good and useful things to know, such as what kind of face to make when you say please, And open house for Butterflies will more than satisfy their expectations!
The multitude of enchanting pictures, and the wisely humorous, childlike words will captivate readers and listeners of any and all ages
About the author (from Wikipedia)
Ruth Ida Krauss (July 25, 1901 – July 10, 1993) was an American writer of children’s books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print.
About the illustrator (from Wikipedia)
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children’s books. His book Where the Wild Things Are was first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak wrote books including In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors such as the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. He achieved acclaim with Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the first of a trilogy followed by In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). He also designed sets for operas, notably Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie and Philip Sendak. Maurice said that his childhood was a “terrible situation” due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust which introduced him at a young age to the concept of mortality. His love of books began when, as a child, he developed health issues and was confined to his bed. When he was 12 years old, he decided to become an illustrator after watching Walt Disney’s film Fantasia.
