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The Happy Hunter
Roger Duvoisin
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Description for The Happy Hunter
Hardcover. As anti-gun and pro-vegetarian as you can get, The Happy Hunter is a beautiful, heart-felt story about communing with animals. Illustrator(s): Duvoisin, Roger. Num Pages: 40 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFP; YXZG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 260 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
One fine day, Mr. Bobbin dons his hunting outfit and heads into the forest. Fully equipped and ready, he's forgotten one thing----that he's a hunter, as well as a vegetarian, who cannot hunt because of his great love of animals. Curiously, this is a true story. When first published (1962), the real happy hunter had been hunting for 25 years. Roger Duvoisin was born in Switzerland and came to the US in 1925. He wrote and illustrated forty books, and illustrated over 100 more by other authors. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, ... Read more
One fine day, Mr. Bobbin dons his hunting outfit and heads into the forest. Fully equipped and ready, he's forgotten one thing----that he's a hunter, as well as a vegetarian, who cannot hunt because of his great love of animals. Curiously, this is a true story. When first published (1962), the real happy hunter had been hunting for 25 years. Roger Duvoisin was born in Switzerland and came to the US in 1925. He wrote and illustrated forty books, and illustrated over 100 more by other authors. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781592702053
SKU
V9781592702053
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Roger Duvoisin
ROGER DUVOISIN was born in Genva, Switzerland, and came to the United States in 1925. He wrote and illustrated 40 books, and illustrated over 100 more by other authors. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for White Snow, Bright Snow and a Caldecott Honor in 1966 for Hide and Seek Fog, both written by Alvin Tresselt. Roger Duvoisin died ... Read more
Reviews for The Happy Hunter
First published in 1961, this endearing picture book for 3- to 8-year-olds doesn't read as any sort of pacifist (or vegetarian) morality tale but rather as an amiable appreciation of the texture and beauty of the world.
Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal