THE HAPPY LION ROARS
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957. Roger Duvoisin. 1st edition. Cloth. 1st edition. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 4to., illustrated with color and b&w drawings. Yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. The dj is price-clipped, with light soiling, light edge wear, and one small closed tear. Yellow boards have light soiling. Small donation sticker on a front end paper. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Very Good / Very Good. Item #25007
Louise Fatio Duvoisin (August 18, 1904 – July 26, 1993) was a Swiss-born American writer of children's books. Many were created in collaboration with her husband Roger Duvoisin, a Swiss-born illustrator, and she is known best for their picture book series Happy Lion. The Happy Lion (1954), first in the series, won the inaugural, 1956 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in its German-language translation (Der glückliche Löwe).
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