The Big Book for Peace [First Edition]

Durrell, Ann; Sachs, Marilyn [Editors]

ISBN 10: 0590453947 / ISBN 13: 9780590453943

Published by Dutton, New York, 1990

About this Item

Near fine, illustrated hardcover (Sendak illustration), stated first edition / first printing. 120 pps + colored and black and white illustrations. Only noted flaw is that corner is bumped; interior is unmarked, without stamps, writing, etc, clean, bright and tight. "Writings about peace include original fables, poems, biographies, illustrations, etc. from such distinguished contributors as Katherine Paterson, Maurice Sendak, Lois Lowry and Jerry Pinkney, Loyd Alexander, Jean Fritz, Myra Cohn Livingston, Marilyn Sachs, Yoshiko Uchida and Nancy Willard, etal" GIFT quality.

Seller Inventory # 112431

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Big Book for Peace [First Edition]
• Publisher: Dutton, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590453947
• ISBN 13: 9780590453943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • CHILDREN*

About this title

Synopsis

Young adult essays. First printing, full number line. Book and jacket near fine and clean, inside and out, price inked out on the front flap. Each essay written by a different author, illustrated by different artists. Cover illustration by Maurice Sendak.

From School Library Journal

A pantheon of 34 artists and writers come together in an anthology that is both useful and inspiring. Some authors have produced works from real life, as in Jean Fritz' moving story of an Inuit people triumphing over Cold War separation and Milton Meltzer's tale about a Quaker's tragic predicament during the Civil War. Others have written stories. Lloyd Alexander contributes one about the progressively disasterous series of misunderstandings between two princes; Lois Lowry relates the story of the resolution of a rivalry between two friends. Poetry is contributed by Myra Cohen Livingston. Illustrations inspired by the text or the theme are scattered throughout the book: Steven Kellogg does his own version of "A Peaceable Kingdom"; Ben Shecter's charcoal image hauntingly mirrors Charlotte Zolotow's poem "Enemies"; Marc Simont's full-page series of paintings provide a punchline for Marilyn Sachs' "I Was There." Some of the prose is more obviously and schematically didactic than the rest, a problem that afflicts the fiction more than the nonfiction. Yoshiko Uchida contributes a powerful "Letter from a Concentration Camp," but never says whether it is a work especially done for the book or a replication of an actual letter, which does confuse somewhat. Fundamentally, however, this is an exemplary collection. Inspired by an angry children's librarian who was offended by the popularity of books on war, Sachs and Durrell have come up with a powerful, well-done answer. --Christine Behrmann, New York Public Library
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