Signed by the author. Second printing of the Philomel edition, 2001.

Signed by the author. Second printing of the Philomel edition, 2001. Hardcover in dust jacket, 119 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Slepian. Though there are no ownership marks, this copy belonged to Maggie Kimmel. 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.