Ruth Sawyer MAGGIE ROSE HER BIRTHDAY CHRISTMAS Signed & Illustrated By Maurice Sendak Original Dust Jacket Childrens Literature Bangor Maine
Title: Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas
Author: Ruth Sawyer - Ruth Sawyer, was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of "Roller Skates", which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature.
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
City: New York and Evanston
Year: Unknown
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 151 pages
Width: 5.25" Height: 7.75"
Book Details: This vintage volume is bound in illustrated paper with black lettering to the spine and boards. Maurice Sendak illustrated this story and signed the front free endpaper.

From the dust jacket: "Eight-going-on-nine-year-old Maggie Rose, who was born on the night before Christmas and named after a real live princess, is one of "those Bunkers," a lazy and shiftless family who live in a dilapidated shack on the wrong side of the Point, a resort spot near Bangor, Maine, and are known to one and all as the laziest, laughingest, singingest family for miles around. Tim and Liz Bunker and their brood of seven children are without an ambition in the world and prefer to lean generously on the charity of their neighbors rather than go out and work. Only Maggie Rose ever wishes for something a little better; most especially, she wishes that just for once there was enough money for "those Bunkers" to have a wonderful birthday Christmas celebration all of their own...So when tragedy threatens Maggie Rose, "those Bunkers" are finally jolted out of their kitchen chairs, and in an unprecedented move they rally together and determinedly set about making Maggie Rose's dream come true."
Condition / Notes: This volume shows very light external age and wear, and is solidly bound with clean, bright pages. The original dust jacket exhibits a Harper Crest gold sticker, and is preserved with a mylar cover. The front dust jacket flap has been clipped at the lower corner.

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