

Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers Box edition 1989ĭimensions : 5.25 x 1.21 x 6.

They are smaller size hard cover books with paper pages in good condition. Not one word or illustration has been deleted from this collection, which includes Frederick, a Caldecott Honor Book about a poet field mouse whose happy memories help his family endure the darkest days of winter Matthew’s Dream, the story of a young mouse who dreams one night of ‘playful patches of color’ and goes on to paint great things Geraldine, the Music Mouse, a simple fable about a mouse who discovers a passion for music and Tillie and the Wall, the story of a determined mouse who longs to discover the unknown world on the other side of the wall in her meadow.

Leo Lionni’s signature mice are the stars of this boxed-set edition of four picture book classics. The novel is set in Steinbecks birthplace of Salinas Valley, California, and it is at the ranch where he grew up that we meet the majority of characters.
