LITTLE MONSTER AT Work

New York, NY: Golden Press / Western Publishing Co.. Very Good-. 1978. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized book with illustrated laminated covers. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is a second printing (with the letter B present on the bottom edge of the rear inside cover). The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners and edges. The top spine end has some chipping and a bit of paper lossas well. The front spine joint has previously cracked and been carefully repaired, but is still fragile. The text pages are clean and bright. "Mayer published his first book, A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, at Dial Press in 1967. [2] It was notable for being a completely wordless picture book—one that tells its story entirely through the use of pictures. Mayer was one of the first illustrators to be credited with using this format. Five more books in this series followed. He also produced If I Had a Gorilla about the advantages of ape ownership. The book There's a Nightmare in My Closet drew on Mayer's childhood fears of monsters in his room at night. Critics compared the book unfavorably to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are (ironically Sendak himself found no such comparison and enjoyed Nightmare; having been a friend of Mayer's) , but children and their parents loved the story and it became very popular, with at least 14 editions being released since its publication in 1968, and was featured on Reading Rainbow." (from Wikipedia) .