Description
No Dust Jacket, a mylar jacket has been added. Good binding is yellow cloth over boards, showing a black background with 3 figures, black and yellow lettering, black lettering on the spine, rear cover has write-ups of the author, illustrator, and music. Boards have some discoloration and bumping at corners. Black mark on inside front and rear cover. Color illustrations throughout by Remy Charlip. Pages clean and binding is tight. Book measures 5.8″ tall x 8.5″ wide.
About the author (from the book)
RUTH KRAUSS is so attuned to the rhythms, rhymes and cadences of children’s speech that while her writings may sometimes bewilder
an adult, a child has no problem tuning in at once. Her training for this comes from several years of sitting in on nursery school classes, and the result has been two dozen or more books, including A HOLE IS TO DIG, HOW TO MAKE AN EARTHQUAKE, A VERY SPECIAL HOUSE and now WHAT A FINE DAY FOR
About the illustrator (from the book)
REMY CHARLIP is the author and illustrator of FORTUNATELY and with Burton Supree, MOTHER MOTHER I FEEL SICK (both on
the Parents’ list) as well as WHERE IS EVERYBODY? and 1
LOVE YOU. In 1966 he won an Off-Broadway award for his “distinguished direction’ of A BEAUTIFUL DAY by Ruth Krauss. He is
Head of the Children’s Theater Department at Sarah Lawrence College. In Greenville. Delaware there is a library named the Remy Charlip Library.
About the music (from the book)
AL CARMINES is the Associate Minister at Judson Memorial Church. As director of the Judson Poets’ Theater and the Judson Dance Theater, he has composed the music for many of their plays, operas and dances, including HOME MOVIES. PROMENADE, and WHAT HAPPENED. Recently he has collaborated with Remy Charlip on PATTER FOR A SOFTSHOE DANCE. SING HO! FOR A BEAR. SONG OF SONGS and A BEAUTIFUL DAY, a series of poem plays by Ruth Krauss.
