"Stuck with Luck" by Elizabeth Johnson, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition published by Little, Brown & Co., 1967.

Illustrated hard boards [corner wear and a little fading]; 6.1/2" x 8.1/2"; name covered with black ink on the front endpaper [see photo], 88 pages, a little soiling and wear, very good condition.

"A boy meets a cantankerous leprechaun homesick for Ireland and shenanigans of all kinds follow. Concealing a visiting leprechaun is not an easy thing to do as this lad discovers…. This fun story, with wonderful drawings by Trina Schart Hyman, reinforces the idea that we need to be grateful for what we have."

Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends. She won the 1985 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges.

She enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now part of the University of the Arts) in 1956, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1959. She graduated from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1960. She then moved to Stockholm, Sweden, for two years, where Trina studied at the Konstfackskolan (Swedish State Art School) and illustrated her first children's book, titled "Toffe och den lilla bilen" ("Toffe and the Little Car").

She was the first art director of Cricket Magazine, from 1973 to 1979, and contributed illustrations regularly until her death.Many of her illustrations can be quite complex. For example, in one scene in Saint George and the Dragon, the dragon's tail stretches into the border artwork of the next page.

Awards and honorsHyman won the annual Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book, for 'Saint George and the Dragon', published by Little, Brown in 1984. Margaret Hodges wrote the text, retelling Edmund Spenser's version of the Saint George legend. She also won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for picture books, recognizing King Stork (Little, Brown, 1973), text by Howard Pyle (1853–1911). She won the Golden Kite Award for her illustration of Little Red Riding Hood in 1984.

She received three Caldecott Honors, for her own retelling of 'Little Red Riding Hood' in 1984, Hershel and the 'Hanukkah Goblins' by Eric Kimmel in 1990, and 'A Child's Calendar' by John Updike in 2000. And she was a Boston Globe–Horn Book picture book runner-up twice, for 'All in Free but Janey' by Elizabeth Johnson in 1968 and 'On to Widecombe Fair' by Patricia Gauch in 1978."The Golem" by Barbara Rogasky and illustrated by Hyman won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category.

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