FREE TO BE...YOU AND ME

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of these collected stories and songs, a companion volume to the preceding album and Emmy-winning television special, a beloved and hugely influential feminist project of children's liberation from imposed gender roles. FREE TO BE... was first conceived by Thomas, and brought into being with the support of MS. magazine editor Pogrebin and producer Carole Hart: "Letty Cottin Pogrebin knew feminism. Carole Hart knew songwriters. And Marlo Thomas knew everybody" (Kois). Book contributors include Carl Reiner, Stephen Lawrence, Shel Silverstein, Judy Blume, Judith Viorst, Mary Rodgers, Anne Roiphe, Betty Miles, and Lucille Clifton, with illustrations by Barbara Bascove, Guy Billout, Arnold Lobel, and Doug Taylor. Increasingly hard to find in collectible condition. 11'' 8.5''. Original purple cloth. Yellow endpapers. In original price-clipped dust jacket. 143, [1] pages. Touches of shelfwear to book. Scuff to rear panel. Overall, bright and sharp.