THE GIRL WHO CRIED FLOWERS
Illustrated by David Palladini
T. Y. Crowell 1974
ISBN# 0-690-00216-5 Crowell hardcover
ISBN# Schocken paperback

The publication of this book, nine years after my first book had appeared, established my reputation in the children's literature field. These five original fairy tales--"The Girl Who Cried Flowers," "Dawn Strider," "The Weaver of Tomorrow," "The Lad Who Stared Everyone Down," and "Silent Bianca," together with the stories in Moon Ribbon and The Hundredth Dove, were what led to my being called the Hans Christian Andersen of America. Putting the stories together in a single volume was the idea of my astute and wonderful editor Ann K. Beneduce, and she had a hand in all my fairy tales for many years after. There are two variant editions. In the first printing, the lettering on the dustjacket spine is black. From second printing on, the lettering on the duskjacket spine is red. There were a number of copies misbound in the second edition, with the first signature (16 pages) of the book Think Metric! bound in place of the correct signature. The book won the Golden Kite Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

       Out of print.

Recording: There is an audiotape of THE GIRL WHO CRIED FLOWERS that I narrated for Weston Woods in their Readings to Remember series. Weston Woods 486C.

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