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