While the subjects of his latest book, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, are not exactly obscure-Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon, Krauss’s A Hole Is to Dig, and their collaboration The Carrot Seed (among many others) remain perennial favorites-their politics have been largely ignored. Seuss, and keeper of the Crockett Johnson Homepage ()-has devoted himself to rescuing twentieth-century radical children’s literature and its authors from relative oblivion. Mickenberg, of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature, author of several books on Dr. What you might not have learned is that all these children’s books (and many other progressive favorites) were authored by one or the other or both members of a couple whose left politics inflected their work. If you did not, it is likely your friends and future comrades did. You might have learned internationalism from The Big World and the Little House, or cultural relativism from Who’s Upside Down?, or freethinking and obstinacy from Barnaby. If you did not read The Carrot Seed or Harold and the Purple Crayon, probably your children or your friends’ children did.
“At least we can turn the book around,” said the little kangaroo. “Everything is upside down! And we can’t do a thing about it.” N° de ref.“Everything,” said the big kangaroo. All are signed and illustrated by Sendak. They are: Where the Wild Things Are, Hurry Home Candy, Hector Protector And As I Went Over The Water, Very Far Away, A Very Special House, The Wonderful Farm, Shadrach, In The Night Kitchen, Seven Tales, and Nutcracker. Note: I just acquired eleven signed Sendak and am seeking a collector who is interested. Hanrahan claims that her copy with a price of $2.95 was issued just after the Caldecott Medal and was issued in 1964, this copy would post-date that.
Blurb on rear flap of DJ mentions Caldecott Medal, so this dates the DJ by at least 1964. Book is VG clean and tight DJ is good with minor edgewear very rare signed copy, illustrated by Maurice Sendak eleven years before he hit it big with Where the Wild Things Are. Library of Congress catalog card number 53-7115 on copyright page. Inside flap is clipped at top and bottom with $3.95 price stamped on flap at top book is clean and tight, in very good condition DJ is G with very slight shelfwear. Flat signed by Sendak on inside blank page, no personal inscription.
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