Erma Jane Wittner (1 results)

Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Co., (1934). [16]ff. First edition. Color paper pictorial boards. Illus. Light binding soil; a near fine copy. A little mouse named Suzie who lives with her parents "in an old wooden box in a corner of the garden," with toadstool "trees" outside the door. Illustrations on the rectos cleverly depict the story's action in a two-fold way: a vignette drawing at the bottom of the page sets the greater scene, while a larger, close-up illustration above depicts a plot moving event such as when Suzie falls and bends her tail! Suzie's mother puts butter on her tail, ties it up, and all ends well: "Squeakity, eekity, Squeakity, squeak". …