- Oversize books, Kings and rulers, Animals, Juvenile poetry
A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.
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- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 46
- Publisher
- Methuen Children's, Collier Macmillan, Weston Woods Studios
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780001955035
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“The King and Queen Invited me To come to their house On Sunday for tea.”
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (August 16, 1914—March 1, 2000) was an American writer of children's picture books. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M.Ed. in 1941. During the 1940s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula. During the 1950s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, short stories, and columns, as well as children's books. Her first book was The Giant Story, a picture book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper in 1953. From 1961 she worked at Scholastic, Inc. as the founding editor of its "Lucky Book Club", four days week
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