Alligators All Around: An Alphabet - The Nutshell Library

Sendak, Maurice

ISBN 10: 0001950029 / ISBN 13: 9780001950023

Published by Collins, London and Glasgow, 1964

About this Item

Unpaginated, bound in yellow cloth, with the binding and hinges tight, color illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, and shows edge wear, with light staining. MINIATURE BOOK.

Seller Inventory # 011378

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alligators All Around: An Alphabet - The Nutshell Library
• Publisher: Collins, London and Glasgow
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0001950029
• ISBN 13: 9780001950023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First British Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT
  • MINIATURE BOOKS

About this title

Synopsis

Alphabet starring some toothy alligators.

Review

Those alligators really do get around! Whether they're entertaining elephants, making macaroni, having headaches, or throwing tantrums, the rascally reptiles are never napping! Maurice Sendak's alphabet book will have young "readers" reciting their ABC's in no time. The three-color illustrations endear these quite quarrelsome critters to readers' hearts. Mom, Dad, and Junior are brimming with personality; the collective images create a complete picture of the nutty--yet remarkably familiar--household. Somehow, these likable lizards manage to capture the foibles and peculiarities of human nature better than many bipeds ever could. Yet beneath their very vain and sometimes shockingly spoiled surface, the friendly fanged creatures have a charm that no one can resist. Sendak, beloved author-illustrator of such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Chicken Soup with Rice, much like his green gator gang, is always getting giggles. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter