Inscribed by both author and illustrator. First edition, 1986. Cloth-backed

Inscribed by both author and illustrator. First edition, 1986. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, some cracking to the front inner hinge, a bit of discoloration to the tips of the book's covers, dust jacket with some edgewear including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by both Seeger and Hays and inscribed by them to Maggie Kimmel on the front flyleaf. Margaret "Maggie" Kimmel (1938-2014) was a distinguished professor of Library Sciences, and was also a past president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She pioneered the field of oral story-telling to children, authored the children's book Magic in the Mist (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman) in 1975, and co-authored For Reading Out Loud! She served on two Newbery/Caldecott awards. She was also good friends with Fred Rogers and many other children's book authors.