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Little Toot
by Gramatky, Hardie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- No DJ/N/A
- Seller
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Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York, Putnam, 1939. Believed 1st Edition, no publication date stated. 80 pages in VG condition with no DJ. 7 1/4 x 8". Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition.
Synopsis
Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney’s early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and 30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn’t want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a “tug didn’t want to tug” and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky’s fine art watercolors and giclée prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.
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Details
- Seller
- BoroBooks
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- biblio830
- Title
- Little Toot
- Author
- Gramatky, Hardie
- Illustrator
- Author
- Book Condition
- Used - No DJ
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Weekly Reader Children\'s Book Club
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Children, Weekly Reader
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
BoroBooks
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Murfreesboro, Tennessee
About BoroBooks
Selling books via internet for over 10 years. Quality books at competitive prices. All pictures are of the item you will receive. I do not use stock pictures.
Glossary
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- VG
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