Product Description

From the team that brought us A Hole Is To Dig, here's another romp through the wild and wonderful imagination of children.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #501236 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-10
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .39" h x 7.68" w x 9.27" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

From Amazon.com
From the creators of A Hole Is to Dig comes a reissue of another classic, I'll Be You and You Be Me. Author Ruth Krauss and illustrator Maurice Sendak, with a little help from some young friends, capture all the ups and downs of friendship. A charmingly meandering series of stories, poems, and pen-and-ink line drawings feels like a scrapbook of kid-speak:

--He runs
--I run
--He jumps
--I jump
--He dunks his toast
and I dunk mine

Short-short plays, mysteries, and fairy tales are sprinkled with Sendak's (Where the Wild Things Are, etc.) tiny, sketchy images. Open to any page and dive right in! (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author

Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer’s Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child’s inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children’s literature, including Maurice Sendak and her husband, Crockett Johnson.