The Big Green Book - Hardcover
A little boy finds a big green book in the attic and learns many handy magic spells that he uses with surprising results.
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About the Author:
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began by illustrating other authors' books for children, but the first book that he both wrote and illustrated was Kenny's Window, published in 1956. In his lifetime, he illustrated over 80 books, and received many awards, including the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he was the first American to win the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator's Medal. He passed away in May 2012. Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, son of Alfred Perceval Graves, the Irish writer, and Amalia von Ranke. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926 he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels which include I CLAUDIUS and THE GOLDEN FLEECE. He wrote his autobiography, GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, in 1929. He translated Apuleius, Lucan, and Suetonius for the Penguin classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek mythology, THE GREEK MYTHS. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961, and became an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1971. He published a new edition of his COLLECTED POEMS in 1975. Robert Graves died in December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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"Fantasy value here for power-hungry young imaginations. Maurice Sendak's delightful pictures add a winning note of gaiety" * Kirkus Review * "Graves's fable of childish triumph over grownup rules and regulations is lent extra joyousness by Maurice Sendak's original line drawings" * Washington Post * "First published in 1962, it remains a delight" * New York Times * "A top-class read." -- Alex O'Connell * The Times * "A gorgeous hardback edition ... Every child's dream and the A* finale of a top-class storybook" -- Alex O'Connell * The Times *
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- PublisherViking Children's Books
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 072265538X
- ISBN 13 9780722655382
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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The Big Green Book
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Kestrel Books
(1979)
ISBN 10: 072265538X
ISBN 13: 9780722655382
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Lime green cloth over boards with green lettering on the spine. Binding good and crisp and clean and tight. Original DJ present. Green with black and white lettering, with drawing by Sendak on the cover. Bottom corner of front DJ flap is clipped. DJ has some edgewear and is not perfect, but overall remains good, now protected in mylar cover. No date on the title page. Copyright pages dated 1962 and 1979. This 1979 edition is the first UK edition. Unpaginated. Pages clean, corners square. A lovely edition of a beloved children's book. This UK edition is surprisingly scarce. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photo beside this description, please note that it is a STOCK photo placed there by ABE (for reasons that I cannot understand) not a photo of this particular book. Seller Inventory # V-90
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