signed first edition
2009 · New York
by Pinkney, Jerry; Aesop
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this lovely retelling of one of Aesop's best-known fables — winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal. Winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, a Caldecott Medal (for THE LION AND THE MOUSE), and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Jerry Pinkney was a prolific author and illustrator of children's literature, and one of the preeminent artists in the field. "Jerry used his talent as one of America's great watercolorists to tell stories in pictures [...]with the goal of moving society to a better place," said William R. Valerio, (truncated)