Myrtle struggles with prescribed notions of beauty. An obese girl fighting a compulsive eating disorder, she is self-destructive and shunned by her peers. She sets about discovering her own path through artistic expression and eventually is drawn to an old friend as she gains insights about her own beauty.
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Myrtle struggles with prescribed notions of beauty. An obese girl fighting a compulsive eating disorder, she is self-destructive and shunned by her peers. She sets about discovering her own path through artistic expression and eventually is drawn to an old friend as she gains insights about her own beauty.
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Fine in fine jacket. Inscribed by Rebecca O'Connell to Margaret Kimmel. First edition, 2000. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 116 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Rebecca O'Connell and inscribed by her to "Maggie" Kimmel on the titlepage. Margaret "Maggie" Kimmel (1938-2014) was a distinguished professor of Library Sciences, and was also a past president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She pioneered the field of oral story-telling to children, authored the children's book Magic in the Mist (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman) in 1975, and co-authored For Reading Out Loud! She served on two Newbery/Caldecott awards. She was also good friends with Fred Rogers and many other children's book authors.
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