Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Retrospective Celebrating 85 Years of Storybook Friends - Hardcover

Johnny Gruelle was a talented cartoonist, illustrator, and storyteller. He wrote and illustrated many books about Raggedy Ann and her friends, whom he created for the enjoyment of his beloved daughter, Marcella. Johnny Gruelle eventually created more than forty Raggedy Ann and Andy books, all capturing his unique vision of childhood. He died in 1938.

Johnny Gruelle found an ordinary rag doll in his parents' attic that sparked his creative juices, later becoming the inspiration for many stories to cheer his ailing daughter. In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Retrospective Celebrating 85 Years of Storybook Friends by Patricia Hall, photographs, full-color illustrations and artifacts such as the tiny cardboard heart sewn inside the earliest dolls chronicle the evolution of Gruelle's enduring characters. A foreword by granddaughter Joni Gruelle Wannamaker opens the volume. (S&S, $17 40p all ages ISBN 0-689-84336-4; Oct.)
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