I'll Be You and You Be Me - Hardcover

Ruth Krauss; Maurice Sendak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006023430X ISBN 13: 9780060234300

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1954

Synopsis

Poems deal with friendship, patience, dreams, brothers and sisters, love, growing up, holidays, and animals.

About this title

Review:

From the creators of A Hole Is to Dig comes a reissue of another classic, I'll Be You and You Be Me. Author Ruth Krauss and illustrator Maurice Sendak, with a little help from some young friends, capture all the ups and downs of friendship. A charmingly meandering series of stories, poems, and pen-and-ink line drawings feels like a scrapbook of kid-speak:

--He runs
--I run
--He jumps
--I jump
--He dunks his toast
and I dunk mine

Short-short plays, mysteries, and fairy tales are sprinkled with Sendak's (Where the Wild Things Are, etc.) tiny, sketchy images. Open to any page and dive right in! (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted the child s inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children s literature, including her husband, Crockett Johnson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1954
• ISBN 10: 006023430X
• ISBN 13: 9780060234300
• Binding: Hardcover