The Greedy Python, The Foolish Tortoise

Buckley, Richard

ISBN 10: 0887080391 / ISBN 13: 9780887080395

Published by Picture Book Studio, 1985

About this Item

Scarce First Issue with correct two Carle titles advertised on copyright page. Printed in Austria -- Later issues printed in Hong Kong. Glossy pictorial boards. Fine in Near Fine jacket. A tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.

Seller Inventory # 87942

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Greedy Python, The Foolish Tortoise
• Publisher: Picture Book Studio
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887080391
• ISBN 13: 9780887080395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Carle, Eric
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.

About the Author

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than forty-six million copies and has been translated into sixty-two languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.