The Arkadians
New York: Dutton, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1995. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 272 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Lloyd Alexander and inscribed by him to Maggie Kimmel on the titlepage. 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. Near Fine / near fine. Item #s00014331
ISBN: 0525454152
Price: $51.00