Joe and the Snow by Tomie dePaola (First Edition, 1968, Signed)

1968 First Edition, Joe and the Snow by Tomie dePaola, signed 

What's fun about Joe is that he never has too much snow- not even when he wished for snowstorms to last for five days and nights, depositing enough for two hundred snowmen and burying the house except for the chimney; not even when the melting snow becomes an inland sea (like the grouchy old man warned) and Joe and his animal friends have to hoist a sail. 

When the water has receded Joe starts to think again SNOW, SNOW, SNOW. At the start Joe's housemate Martin, a dog with more than a pipe-smoking kinship to Professor Higgins, seems an intrusion (as do cat Alexander and rabbit Philip), but it's Martin/ Higgins whose quick-thinking (because "I read a lot") saves the house from floating away. As a story, it's no more than a flurry but amusingly conceived and drawn.

Hardcover with dust jacket

Author: Tomie dePaola; who created more than 260 children's books, such as Strega Nona.

Signed: "For Kenny with much love and lots of snow!! - Tomie dePaola, 1969"

Edition/year: 1st, 1968, Hawthorn Books

Condition: Good vintage condition, wear on dust jacket

Dimensions: 9" x 7.5" x 0.25"