Description
Very good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, slight discoloration, illustration of reindeer and Santa’s clothes. Dust jacket has some minor wear at corners and a tear at upper edge on front. The Very Good+ binding is green cloth over boards with illustration of Santa and a monkey in red. Red lettering on the spine. Last few pages have bending at foredge which does not effect the illustrations or text. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 10.5″ tall x 8.5″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
At Santa’s address. No. 1 North Pole, the Yuletide season is the busiest. bustling-est, rushing-est time. BUT when Slick, Mr. Claus’s foreman of elves, tells Santa he is old-fashioned and out of step with the times – that with his sleigh and eight reindeer he is in a rut – poor Santa takes his advice to heart.
“Santa toyed with the thought of a large station wagon With plenty of room to store many a bag in. . ”
To the joy of all readers, the more Santa tries to “go modern” the more ridiculous and delightful his problem becomes.
Richard Armour brings out all the whimsy, warmth, and cheer of Christmas time in this merry, rhyming romp, while Paul Galdone’s sparkling three-color pictures capture character and mood to perfection,
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Richard Armour is one author who entertains readers of all ages. Having made a shambles of history (Tt All Started with Columbus, etc.), literature (Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, etc.), golf (Golf Is a Four-Letter Word), and medicine (The Medical Muse, or What to Do Until the Patient Comes), he most recently took teen-agers apart and put them back together, with only a few parts left over, in Through Darkest Adolescence. The Year Santa Went Modern is his first juvenile.
Richard Armour is not only an author, lecturer, parent, and husband, He is also a college professor who graduated from Pomona College, took a Ph.D. at Harvard, and is now Balch Lecturer in English Literature at Scripps College in California. In addition to numerous books (twenty-six!) several of which have been national best sellers, he has written light verse and even lighter prose for well over 150 magazines in the United States and England
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
Paul Galdone is one of the best known illustrators of children’s and adult books. He drew the pictures for Eve Titus’s Anatole books, as well as Basil of Baker Street and Basil and the Lost Colony, and Ellen MacGregor’s four popular Miss Pickerell stories. He is also designer and illustrator of a number of folk tales and fables, and of Edward Lear’s The Two Old Bachelors and Charles Edward Carryl’s A Capital Ship.
