Newbery Medal-winning author Nancy Willard's trilogy of adventure tales, now in one volume. Children won't be able to put down these stories of the journeys of a boy and his orange cat, Plumpet.
Nancy Willard (1936-2017) was a prolific author of seventy books of
poems andfiction for adults and children. In 1982, her picture book
A Visit to William Blake'sInn- Poems for Innocent and Experienced
Travelers was the first poetry book to receivethe Newbery Medal. It
also received a Caldecott Honor, making it the first Newberywinner
to also receive a Caldecott. She taught creative writing at Vassar
College from1965 until she retired in 2013.
David McPhail was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and attended
the Schoolof the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has written
and/or illustrated more thana hundred books.
“Nancy Willard’s imagination—in verse or prose, for children or
adults—builds castles stranger than any mad King of Bavaria
ever built. She imagines with a wonderful concreteness. But
also, she takes real language and by literal-mindedness turns
it into the structure of dream.” —Donald Hall, The New York
Times
"Both author and illustrator weave tapestries in which make-believe
and reality blend joyfully...The only works comparable in pure
romance and humor to the Anatole stories are the inventions of
Lewis Carroll." —Publishers Weekly
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