VIM THE RAG MOUSE By Niki Daly - 1979 First US Ed Vintage

Description: Vim The Rag Mouse by Niki Daly. Hardcover with dust jacket. First US edition. Atheneum, 1979 Lovely illustrations with cross-hatching technique. Gives the work an earlier 20th century feel, albeit with 1970s' influence. Condition: there is a bookplate at the front of the book but otherwise in good condition. Book has a protective sleeve around the dust jacket. Thanks for looking and feel free to message me if you have any questions. I have other books for sale and can combine shipping. "KIRKUS REVIEW - Vim? the rag mouse? Maybe the name has other connotations in England--whence comes this stagy, derivative item--but neihter there nor here have we seen a pudgy figure the like of this one, whose only claim to mouse-hood is its head. But it's enough for the story's purposes that a prowling cat takes Vim for a mouse, and so starts him on the adventures that will give him a story to tell to the other, more exotic toys (a wooden zebra from Africa, a clown from Poland, etc.) who share his windowsill. The adventures are an arbitrary sequence of ups-and-downs which involve a cranky teacher and a petty crook and result, by an unlikely coincidence, in Vim's return to his windowsill with lots and lots to tell. The illustrations combine Ardizzone colorings and cross-hatching with some notably harsh delineations, and the result is sufficiently unappealing that, in fact, this particular, would-be-winsome story hardly has a chance.Pub Sept. 10th, 1979 Atheneum (Margaret K. McElderry)"

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