Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A charming first edition/first printing, end papers cracked, else Fine condition in somewhat tattered but mended dust-jacket with the Caldecott Medal.

This is the delicious story of a little woman in Old Japan who liked to make dumplings out of rice and also liked to laugh. "Tee-he-he-he." One day, a dumpling rolled through a hole and when the woman tried to catch it, she found herself on a very strange road under the earth. (from the dust-jacket)

Winner of the 1973 Caldecott Medal; Color Illustrations; Square 4to; [40] pages.