Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 4to; [48] pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, Boston
ISBN: 0395533082
Illustrator: Illustrated by Allsburg, Chris Van

[Book #34127]

A charming First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED and dated in year of publication by Caldecott winning author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg directly on the title page ;

The tale about a young boy named Walter who tosses rubbish on the grass and thinks that recycling is a waste of time. Walter longs to live in the future, which he imagines to be full of robots and machines that make life easier. One night while dreaming Walter is transported into the future where he finds a giant garbage dump on his own street and a tree that is about to be chopped down; Color Illustrations; Signed by Author