Old & Rare
Author: Lane Smith
Signed!
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Signed!
SMITH, Lane. The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! [NY]: Viking [2003]. 8vo, 61pp. Green quarter-cloth stamped in black with color pictorial boards. Color patterned endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author/artist, Lane Smith, with a small drawing!
First edition. The sequel to Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith's charming book The Happy Hocky Family. When the Hocky family moves into an old house in the country, they quickly discover that they fit right in as they use the neighbor's rooster as their alarm clock, build the squirrels a feeder, and make pretty bouquets with their own plants.