New York: Putnam, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Absolutely delightful book written and illustrated by this Caldecott Medal winning author. The rollicking rhymes carry a hint of Dr. Seuss's classic child pleasers, and the illustrations (inspired in part, according to Rathmann, by her neices and nephews staging a shadow play) add literally an edge of darkness and danger to the story. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-399-23196x.

New York: Putnam, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Absolutely delightful book written and illustrated by this Caldecott Medal winning author. The rollicking rhymes carry a hint of Dr. Seuss's classic child pleasers, and the illustrations (inspired in part, according to Rathmann, by her neices and nephews staging a shadow play) add literally an edge of darkness and danger to the story. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-399-23196x.

New York & London: Four Winds Press / Macmillan, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of loving and letting go, and of feelings expressed through the magnificent kites a man creates. Illustrated in full color by Caldecott winning artist David Wiesner and SIGNED by him on the title page and dated in 2011. A relatively early work of Wiesner, preceding his Caldecott awards. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-02-743110x.