signed first edition
1992 · New York
by Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrators); Carlstrom, Nancy White
New York: Philomel Books, 1992. First edition, review copy, of Nancy White Carlstrom’s Alaskan bedtime story, richly illustrated with Native American imagery by Leo and Diane Dillon, accompanied by the publisher’s signed promotional poster. A sleepy young narrator bids goodnight to the Earth, each feature of the snow-covered landscape imagined as part of the family: “Goodnight Papa Star / Goodnight Mama Moon, / Bending your silver arms / down through the darkness.” Leo and Diane Dillon won numerous awards over the course of their long career, including back-to-back Caldecott Medals in 1976 and 1977, for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s (truncated)