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Nutshell Library: Alligators all around / Chicken Soup With Rice / One was Johnny / Pierre Hardcover – Box set, October 10, 1962

by Maurice Sendak (Author, Illustrator)

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From Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott Medal-winning genius who created Where the Wild Things Are, comes Nutshell Library, which will enchant readers with four classic titles.

Containing pocket-size versions of perennial favorites Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre, this pint-size library is perfect for small hands.

Learn the alphabet with silly alligators, drink chicken soup with rice every month, count visitors with a boy named Johnny, and survive a scare with a boy who doesn’t care. Endless adventures await in these lyrical stories that children, and their grown-up readers, will love reading and sharing over and over again.

A wonderful stocking stuffer or baby shower gift, Maurice Sendak's Nutshell Library will evoke powerful memories for many, and the rhymes and stories continue to speak to new generations of little ones.

And if you prefer your Nutshell Library books on their own and not quite so tiny, each is also now available in a board book edition.

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"What more could anyone ask? These books are truly for all ages." -- "SLJ."

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This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre.(Titles available separately in library and paperback editions.)

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Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3
Hardcover: 4 pages
Publisher: Harper & Row; First Edition Thus edition (October 10, 1962)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780060255008
ISBN-13: 978-0060255008
ASIN: 0060255005
Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 1.8 x 4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 349 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #198 in Books > Children's Books > Classics
- #591 in Books > Children's Books > Humor

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4 Maurice Sendak Classics in Miniature

October 10, 2017

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

So, I committed the sin of not reading the product description very closely, but this time it worked out. This is just to say that beside the classic, warm, kind illustrations and texts of Maurice Sendak "...sipping once, sipping twice, sipping Chicken Soup with rice!" these books are tiny, something I would have seen had I paid better attention. No complaints - this was a pleasant surprise.

The books fit in the palm of your hand. A four-year-old I know is ecstatic. He loves to carry around these tiny, pocket-size volumes of Russian poetry and now he's got his own literature in miniature. A secret to keep in his pocket. A joy to a parent when he recites what he's been read. The books are hardcover, the box solid but adorable.

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The Nutshell Library--It's Magic

May 26, 2016

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The Nutshell Library is a classic. Inside the small slipcase (ca. 3 x 4 inches) are 4 books written and illustrated by the great Maurice Sendak. My daughter and I loved them in the late 1960s, and I could still remember quite a few lines almost 50 years later. I purchased a copy of the Nutshell Library this year to use with the two 2nd graders with whom I was doing reading practice. These books were "dessert" after they read their assigned books. Both of them loved the books so much that I purchased 2 new copies and gave a copy to each of them at the end of school. I recommend this to every parent and grandparent--you can start reading them to new borns and the books will never grow old. There is something magic about 4 small books held together in a case. I now know all four books by heart, and I have enjoyed reading them as much as my 2 second grade girls. I'm smiling now just thinking about them.

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Might not be great for very young or clumsy/destructive kids because of the ...

January 25, 2018

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It's so TINY. Might not be great for very young or clumsy/destructive kids because of the size, but my mother who grew up with the original release says they're a perfect match. Four little books by the always great Maurice Sendak. Something to keep in mind if you are getting them for a child though, as the books were written in the early 60s, one of them, Alligators All Around contains a page with an outdated depiction of a Native American, nothing to the level of Peter Pan, but modern families may not be expecting it

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An absolute classic!!

April 2, 2018

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I bet I've bought 20 of these book sets as baby gifts over the years! I adored Maurice Sendak's books as a child and still as an adult.....and this little set is an absolute classic!!!

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Highly Recommend! Classics! Wonderful size for little hands.

August 1, 2015

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LOVE Maurice Sendack! These are a third generation gift...first to my bff when she was a child, then to her kids (and mine,) now to my neighbor's tot. Young mother loved them for her 2-year-old AND had never heard of them. Classic and wonderful for small hands, thiough becareful if the young one likes to tear pages, they are paper, not cardboard. Wonderful stories. Carol King also wrote a musical based on these books. The little 2-year-old LOVES the stories! I love them, myself! I will continue to gift to young parents & their children. Highly Recommend!

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This is my baby's first set of books and she ...

June 13, 2016

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This is my baby's first set of books and she absolutely loves them because they're little and her fingers can handle opening them up. And with Maurice Sendak, you can't go wrong. Just looking at them sitting on the shelf when she's done makes me smile. I smile even more when she has the set spread out around her, tapping each one and then choosing one to read. :)

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Super Cute and Nostalgic!

February 17, 2018

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I love these little books! I had them as a young child and just bought this set as a birthday gift for the little boy I nanny for, who loves books. They're high quality and just the right size for little hands. :)

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Such wonderful books

February 21, 2018

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I read these books to my children; now I am reading them to my grandchildren. They are identical to the beautiful editions I had bought 30 years ago.

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