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Penguin Books, Summer 2012 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

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P E N G U I N T H R E A DS<br />

Little Women<br />

Louisa May Alcott<br />

Introduction by Jane Smiley; Notes by<br />

Siobhan Kilfeather and Vinca Showalter<br />

The Wind in the<br />

Willows<br />

Kenneth Grahame<br />

Foreword by Gregory Maguire<br />

The Wizard of Oz<br />

L. Frank Baum<br />

And Other Wonderful <strong>Books</strong> of Oz:<br />

The Emerald City and Glinda of Oz<br />

Edited with an Introduction and Notes<br />

by Jack Zipes<br />

Covers by Rachell Sumpter<br />

Bringing together traditional handicraft with cuttingedge<br />

book design, the <strong>Penguin</strong> Threads series has already<br />

created a huge buzz among the art and book-collecting<br />

communities. This latest set features three beloved children’s<br />

books with cover art by painter and illustrator<br />

Rachell Sumpter, who brings a unique, whimsical sensibility<br />

to the Threads. With vivid colors and ambitiously<br />

intricate details, these additions to our innovative series<br />

commissioned by award-winning creative director Paul<br />

Buckley are rich works of art to be cherished and shared.<br />

Praise for the <strong>Penguin</strong> Threads series:<br />

“ Breathtaking . . . Major kudos to<br />

publisher <strong>Penguin</strong> <strong>Books</strong> for such a beautifully<br />

art-directed and realized series of covers. . . .<br />

Modern, sweet, beautiful. Inspired.”<br />

—Sublimestitching.com<br />

“ When it comes to covers, <strong>Penguin</strong> is hard<br />

to beat. But somehow, the publisher<br />

just keeps upping the ante.” —Booklicious<br />

(bookliciousblog.com)<br />

“ In a time of downloads, E-Ink and Kindles, it is<br />

nice to see that <strong>Penguin</strong> still strives to produce<br />

beautifully designed physical books.<br />

. . . Miss Tamaki is one talented artist and her<br />

collaboration with <strong>Penguin</strong> is a match made in<br />

book heaven.” —PhillyBurbs.com<br />

louisA MAy AlCott (1832–1888) is best known for her selfreflective<br />

children’s books Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys.<br />

kenneth gRAhAMe (1859–1932) was a British bank secretary who<br />

had written The Wind in the Willows for his only child, Alastair.<br />

l. fRAnk BAuM (1856–1919) published numerous children’s books and<br />

is best known for his hugely popular Oz series.<br />

JAne sMiley is the author of more than ten works of fiction, including<br />

A Thousand Acres, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a biography of Charles<br />

Dickens for the <strong>Penguin</strong> Lives series. She lives in Northern California.<br />

gRegoRy MAguiRe is the bestselling author of Wicked, the basis for the<br />

Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name. He lives in Boston,<br />

Massachusetts.<br />

JACk ziPes is an award-winning scholar of folklore and children’s literature.<br />

He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<br />

RAChell suMPteR lives and works on a tiny island in the Puget Sound,<br />

Washington, with her husband and fellow artist Jacob Magraw-Mickelson and their<br />

two children. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Jack Hanley,<br />

Allston Skirt, and Richard Heller galleries, and featured in The Boston Globe,<br />

San Francisco Chronicle, and McSweeney’s.

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