Description

The master illustrator of Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Story of Ferdinand brings new life to a bevy of traditional tales. More than forty of the artist's enchanting pen-and-ink drawings grace thirteen fairy tales and poems of wizards, dragons, and princes in disguise by Padraic Colum, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Eunice Tietjens, and other distinguished authors.
Contents include Auntie Grumble Meets the Wizard by Carol Johnstone Sharp; Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic, More About Jonathan Bing, and Jonathan Bing Dances for Spring by Beatrice Curtis Brown; The Pelican by Mildred Plew Meigs; The Wogg and the Baggle by Laura E. Richards; and The Man with the Bag by Padraic Colum. Other features include Eunice Tietjens' St. Valentine, Story Tell by Laura E. Richards, The Little Dragon by Constance Savery, Nancy Byrd Turner's Planting a Tree, Penguins by Anne Brewer, and The Piping on Christmas Eve by Florence Page Jaques.