Little Grunt and the Big Egg by Tomie dePaola [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1990

 Little Grunt and the Big Egg: A Prehistoric Fairy Tale by Tomie dePaola

FIRST EDITION  / FIRST PRINTING [1990] HOLIDAY HOUSE NY

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket has some light wear to edges and a sealed tear to upper left hand corner, but is otherwise in excellent shape. 

Book itself looks and reads like new, w. the exception of some spotting to cloth portion of cover around spine.   Name of orig. owner written inside of cover.   

The classic (and hilarious) story of a young cave boy and his mysterious egg by the author of Strega Nona....

Mama Grunt sends Little Grunt out to find a dozen eggs. All he can find is one huge egg. The egg hatches and out pops a baby dinosaur. Little Grunt names him George. Soon George grows too big for the Grunt family cave, and poor Little Grunt has to send him away. But when the local volcano erupts, there?s only one dinosaur who can save the day!  - Bookshop Apocalypse