Alice and Martin Provensen’s illustrations are so delightful that children will want to join the fuzzy duckling on his stroll through the countryside, meeting animals along the way. This adorable counting story by Jane Werner Watson is as fresh today as it was in 1949.
Deceased. JANE WERNER WATSON was a longtime editor of Little Golden Books, Big Golden Books, and many other associated formats. She also wrote a dazzling variety of Golden titles, from the bestselling
My Little Golden Book About God to an adaptation of
The Iliad and the Odyssey, along with dozens of favorite Disney titles.
For decades the Caldecott medalists ALICE and MARTIN PROVENSEN illustrated a wide variety of Golden Books including
The Color Kittens;
The Iliad and the Odyssey;
The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense;
The Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends; and
Tales from the Ballet. Martin Provensen passed away in 1987.