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02343aam a2200301 a 4500 001 5E3710240AF111E39305B8A1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 101220s2011 ctua 000 1 eng 010 $a 2010052431 020 $a 0300170971 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780300170979 (cloth : alk. paper) : 035 $a (OCoLC)670481515 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d SFR $d IK2 $d BWX $d CDX $d SINLB $d VP@ $d EDK $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3537.T323 $b T6 2011 082 00 $a 813/.52 $2 22 100 1 $a Stein, Gertrude, $d 1874-1946. 245 10 $a To do : $b a book of alphabets and birthdays / $c by Gertrude Stein ; with illustrations by Giselle Potter and an introduction by Timothy Young. 260 $a New Haven ; $b Yale University Press, in association with Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, $c c2011. 300 $a 127 p. : $b ill. (mostly col.) $c 24 cm. 520 $a Overview: Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday," muses Gertrude Stein in To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays. Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book The World Is Round, published the previous year, To Do is a fanciful journey through the alphabet. Each letter is represented by four names (including Gertrude for "G") and features a short story told in verse. "[This is] a birthday book I would have liked as a child," said Stein of To Do. Publishers rejected the manuscript as too complex for children, and it remained unpublished during Stein's lifetime. A text-only version issued from Yale University Press in 1957. Now, more than seventy years after Stein penned the story, To Do is appearing with illustrations, realizing the author's original concept for the book. Giselle Potter's witty and stylish illustrations provide a perfect complement to Stein's uniquely whimsical world of words, creating a truly delightful, often hilarious book that adults and children alike can appreciate and love. 650 0 $a Alphabet $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Names, Personal $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Birthdays $v Juvenile fiction. 700 1 $a Potter, Giselle. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802034824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E3710240AF111E39305B8A1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search