Princess Lenore becomes ill, and only one thing will make her better: the moon. Thurber s Many Moons won the Caldecott Medal in 1944. With scuffing and fading to the spine, otherwise a clean, collectible copy. In a worn and heavily chipped pictorial dust jacket which is missing a pinky fingernail-sized chip at the top of the spine. Very clean and tight throughout virtually unread. Handsomely bound in finely woven brick-red linen boards with black lettering on the front cover. In 1972 an audio version was released by Caedmon Records, read by Peter Ustinov with music by Edgar Summerlin.'. In 1966, an animated adaptation was produced by Gene Deitch as part of the animated film Alice of Wonderland in Paris. It was also made into a play, adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning.

Many Moons was made into an opera by American composer, Celius Dougherty. Despite winning the Caldecott Medal with Slobodkin's original illustrations, a reprint in 1990 by Harcourt featured the text accompanied by new illustrations by Marc Simont. Unlike much of Thurber's other work, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and his fables, this story shows a crisis between males and females that ends happily for all. It was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1943 and won the Caldecott Medal in 1944. From its Wikipedia page: 'Many Moons is a children's picture book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. I turned over everyone and didn't see any soiling. The same can be said for all of the pages. The illustrated inside covers and end papers are very clean and in very good shape. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well.

The book is square and the spine is straight. The page edges don't appear to have any soiling. They also have small losses at both spine ends. I would rate the covers Good Minus and the interior of the book Near Fine. First Edition ( 'I' on the copyright page).

Many Moons by James Thurber