Nutshell Library

This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre.(Titles available separately in library and paperback editions.)

"An alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale are all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. What more could anyone ask? These books are truly for all ages."--School Library Journal. Includes Alligators All Around: An Alphabet; Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months; One Was Johnny: A Counting Book; and Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue. Pictures in three colors. ALA Notable Children's Books.

This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre.(Titles available separately in library and paperback editions.)

Sometimes dark, sometimes gleefully silly, but always inventive, intelligent, and colorful, Maurice Sendak s imaginatively illustrated children s books never forget their audience. Although his classic Where the Wild Things Are was criticized upon its initial publication for being too frightening, children responded with enthusiasm to both its wonderfully zany artwork as well as to its honesty. Forty years later, they still do.