London: Faber and Faber, 1946. [4] 40 pages. Illustrated In colour throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Original green and brown pictorial cloth. 232 x 247 mm. First U.K. edition. Lacks the dust-wrapper; else a fine bright fresh copy without inscriptions. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for ’the most distinguished America picture book for children in the year of its publication.’ First published in 1942.