| Other author/creator | Sendak, Maurice illustrator. |
| Other author/creator | Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Sendak, Maurice inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Jarrell, Mary, 1914-2007, inscriber. |
| Contents |
The Hunter -- The Mermaid -- The Hunter Brings Home a Baby -- The Bear -- The Lynx -- The Lynx and the Bear Bring Home a Boy -- The Boy. |
| Abstract |
A mermaid, a hunter, a bear and a lynx all live together. One day the bear and lynx find a boy in a rowboat on the beach and bring him home too. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016211838 inscribed on t.p. "for Stuart [Wright] and still, for Randall, Maurice Sendak, Oct. 80." Loose signatures in boards; the whole placed in a clamshell box. Several pages missing or partially missing. Stuart Wright Book Collection #55.14. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Randall Jarrell Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017073930 inscribed "For Stuart [Wright] ... My Love, Mary Jarrell. 1986." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are a publisher's with compliments slip (ca. 1985) and a Christmas card from Maurice Sendak to Wright decorated with a drawing by Sendak (October 1982). Stuart Wright Book Collection #175.28. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Randall Jarrell Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| References |
Wright, S. Randall Jarrell, A17a |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016211838 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017073930 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Awards note | Newbery Honor Book, 1966. |
| Awards note | New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, 1965. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. Animal family. New York : Pantheon Books, c1965 |
| LCCN | 65020659 |
