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The Backward Day

The Backward Day

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The Backward Day

by Ruth Krauss

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
Condition
Near Fine
ISBN 10
159017237X
ISBN 13
9781590172377
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About This Item

Hardcover edition published by New York Review Books, 2007. Originally published in 1950, this is a NYRB edition. Classic children's story of backwards day, what will he do backwards next? Illustrated boards, with the distinctive NYRB red cloth covered spine. Books in this series from NYRB were not issued with dust jackets. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Synopsis

Ruth Krauss (1901-1993), a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child's inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children's literature, including Maurice Sendak and her husband, Crockett Johnson. Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day , and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Wonderful O and The 13 Clocks .

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Bookseller
Hopkins Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
21-912
Title
The Backward Day
Author
Ruth Krauss
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
159017237X
ISBN 13
9781590172377
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2007
LCCN
2007006747
Bookseller catalogs
Children's Books;

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