First printing of the first collaborative picture book from husband and wife team Arnold Lobel and Anita Lobel, the story of a rooster who outsmarts a robber who fears the sun.
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $50.00
Anita Lobel's illustrations carry the indelible influence of her childhood in Eastern Europe, incorporating folk art and bright colors to bring light to stories. Her success was hard-won: a Polish Jew, she was sent to a concentration camp as a child, an experience that she has reflected on in several of her works. Lobel's writing and illustrations have earned accolades including a Caldecott Honor and two National Book Award nominations.
Arnold Lobel's stories and art all have a distinctive cozy, homey quality to them. Despite this, by his own admission, he much preferred the art part: "I have to force myself not to think in visual terms, because I know if I start to think of pictures, I'll cop out on the text," he admitted to the NEW YORK TIMES. He is one of the select group of children's book creators who have earned both the Caldecott and the Newbery Medals for his work.
Read more: Hilary Stout, "Arnold Lobel, Author-Illustrator," The New York Times 6 December 1987.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1977). 8'' x 9.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [16] leaves. Jacket with light sunning to spine, one 1.25" closed tear. Binding with a touch of bumping to corners and spine ends. Clean and bright.
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