Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, upper front corner clipped, Us price of $7.45 is present in the lower corner. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, black image of a typewriter and owl in lower right corner, Gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Harold Gripe black-and-white illustrations can be found throughout the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
A nurse, working the night shift, advertises for a baby-sitter to keep her young, daughter company. A young writer, who cart sleep in his own tiny apartment because it is too full of books, eagerly signs up for the job. At first the daughter is furious about this arrangement, but when the kind though eccentric young man arrives with his books papers, records and a pet owl named Smuggler, she is gradually won, over. Soon she has christened him her Night Daddy” and the two of them are sharing midnight snacks, training the owl, and tending an exotic tropical plant known as the Queen of the Night. In this curious and deeply touching story Maria Gripe offers insight into how a child and an adult come to know one another how they understand and misunderstand each other, and how friendship and respect must go hand in hand. 008-0012
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
MARIA GRIPE is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished children’s writers whose Hugo and Josephine trilogy won the Nils Holgersson Plaque, the highest award for children’s literature in Sweden
