Turtle in July

TURTLE IN JULY

Pinkney, Jerry (illustrator). First edition. Signed first printing, describing the life of a different animal for each month of the year, featuring exquisite full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney that nearly leap off the page. 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, director of Woodmere Art Museum, at time of Pinkney's death in 2021. 10.25'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($13.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Pinkney and Singer to title page. Jacket with a hint of wear. Sharp and bright. Signed. Artikel-Nr. 56266

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