This book tells about a daring imagination that has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale about Jennie, the Sealyham terrier, who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre.
Read More
This book tells about a daring imagination that has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale about Jennie, the Sealyham terrier, who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Sendak, Maurice. Good in dw jacket. Brown pictorial paper-covered boards. Yellow lettering on spine. Dustwrapper a little worn, and has a vinyl laminate protector. Minor wear to edges of covers. Name on front pastedown. Contents VG.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in Fine jacket. Brown cloth boards with paper onlay to front cover, under illustrated dust jacket priced $4.95. No statement of later printing, matches Hanrahan. Very small tear to bottom edge of front flap.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Sendak, Maurice. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed. By Author Signed by Sendak on front endpaper: "To Loretta, Marcus and Lew Jones-Maurice Sendak." Child's scrawled signature in imitation beneath. Light brown cloth, gilt spine title, color paste-on to the upper board. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the first-state price of $4.95 and the '1067' code, but the last book listed on the rear flap is 'Pictures by Maurice Sendak', issued in 1974. Dj has minor edgewear. Thanks for viewing our listing! We appreciate your business! Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Square.
As my title says, I love this book. It is informed by a deep love of a dog (I've read there really was a Jenny -- I've seen photographs of her). That love is all the more genuine and moving in that the story has none of the sentimentality that the rest of us allow ourselves, as we read our lives (and survival) into that of our animal pets. Some other reviews say that the story is strange and quirky. I agree, but the world is strange and quirky, especially if we are obliged to see it new. It takes some kind of courage to face sadness (read: to be torn away from comfortable mental habits that, it's true, give us solace in hard times), the big one being the sadness on separation from those we love. I read the story as being both dangerous and reassuring; a way of experiencing that we individuals might live longer than those we love. What if those we love want something from the world that we can't give them? Or maybe we want them to stick around for all time. And Higglety-Pigglety Pop does this with such humor and grace. What a grand way to immortalize Jenny!
