Johnny Lion's Book (I Can Read) by Edith Thacher Hurd - 1965

New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clement Hurd. I Can Read Book. No dust jacket. Not ex-library or Weekly Reader. Gently read or unread. Clean with no writing. Owner's name on first endpaper. Attractive book with near fine panels. Wear is confined to two corner tips and approximately an inch of the edge near the spine tail. Spine slant. Synopsis: A young lion named Johnny is left alone and told by his parents not to go out of the house while they are hunting. He immerses himself in a book about a little lion who explores the dangers in his world. When the parents return, they are upset when he tells them that he has left the house. Realizing that they are upset, he reassures them that he only left via his book's lion adventures.