ONCE UPON A TIME: My Life With Children's Books
By Sheila Egoff with Wendy K. Sutton (Custer, Wa., U.S.A./Victoria, B.C., Canada): , (2005). First edition, first printing. First printing number code sequence 1 through 4 to the copyright page. Illustrated with twenty photographs on glossy black-and-white plates. Egoff, the author of several works on children, set up library schools and was the first curator of the renowned Osborne Collection of Early Children's books. This work is a memoir of her early reading, career, expressions of understanding literature for children, and her contributions to libraries. Fine, tight and fresh in blue linen boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket. Octavo; 163 pages; bibliography; photo credits. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT LITERARY BOOKS THANKS! |