THE ALL-I'LL-EVER-WANT CHRISTMAS DOLL
McKissack, Patricia C.; Pinkney, Jerry
- Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books, New York
- Date published: 2007
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780375937590
Signed first printing of this Depression-era Christmas story about the kind of gifts money can't buy, with lush illustrations by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney. Winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, a Caldecott Medal (for THE LION AND THE MOUSE), and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Jerry Pinkney was a prolific author and illustrator of children's literature, and one of the preeminent artists in the field. "Jerry used his talent as one of America's great watercolorists to tell stories in pictures [.]with the goal of moving society to a better place," said William R. Valerio, director of Woodmere Art Museum, at time of Pinkney's death in 2021. 11'' x 9.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($16.99) color pictorial dust jacket with metallic embossed title. Illustrated in color. Unpaginated. Signed by Pinkney to title page. Sharp and bright.
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