4to. Numerous color illustrations by Slobodkin. Original publisher’s red cloth, black-lettered on front cover (very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); in original pictorial dust jacket. 

 

FIRST EDITION of the 1944 Caldecott Medal winner, the first picture book written by Thurber, and Slobodkin’s fourth  illustrated children’s books. The story was later adapted into an opera by Celius Dougherty, a play by Charlotte Chorpenning, part of the animated film Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966), and an audio version read by Peter Ustinov accompanied by music by Edgar Summerlin.