New York: Parents Magazine Press, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pieter Vanderloon was a very fortunate man with a fine wife, six children, and a mill overflowing with corn but when two tiny mice begin to eat some of corn begins to disappear, he goes to buy a cat. Instead he comes home with an elephant - after all, it cost him nothing except a promise to never return it!. A "Good Reader" Book, Illustrated by Tom Vroman. Thin square format, unpaginated.