The Big Book for Peace

New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1990. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. Maurice SENDAK, jacket illustration. First edition. 4to; 120pp; color illustrated glazed boards; green endpapers; color illustrated throughout; unclipped color illustrated glazed dust jacket, lacking price on the front flap, rear flap states "Reinforced for Library Use"; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan A134. ISBN: 0-590-45394-7. A collection of stories and poems about peace, to help children understand the concept of the different kinds of peace. An anthology of writers: Lloyd Alexander, Natalie Babbitt, John Bierhorst, Jean Fritz, Jean Craighead George, Thacher Hurd, Steven Kellogg, Myra Cohn Livingston, Lois Lowry, Milton Meltzer, Katherine Paterson, Marilyn Sachs, Yoshiko Uchida, Mildred Pitts Walter, Nancy Willard, and Charlotte Zolotow. Illustrators for the stories and poems: Jon Agee, Thomas B. Allen, Barbara Cooney, Diane and Leo Dillon, Leonard Everett Fisher, Thacher Hurd, Trina Schart Hyman, Steven Kellogg, JHerry Pinkney, Ted Rand, Allen Say, Maurice Sendak, Ben Shecter, Marc Simont, Teri Sloat, Paul O. Zelinsky, and Dirk Zimmer.