My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss [FIRST EDITION] 1996 • Knopf

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss & illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher

FIRST EDITION [1996] ALFRED A. KNOPF

6th printing / 1996 of this post-humous collaboration between Seuss and expressionist husband and wife painters, Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher.

Pristine, undamaged dust jacket; decorated with cut-out shapes.  Looks beautiful with minimal wear and no signs of age.

Book has a small personalized sticker on front endpaper; otherwise excellent.  Reads good as new, clean, bright and lustrous pages!

Accompanying a manuscript Dr. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me."

The late Dr. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color." The quest for an artist finally ended—after the manuscript languished for more than two decades—at the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher whose stunning, expressive paintings reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf.

Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book does for the range of human moods and emotions what Oh, the Places You'll Go! does for the human life cycle.

Here is a wonderful way for parents to talk with children about their feelings. With Johnson and Fancher's atmospheric, large-scale paintings bursting off the pages, Dr. Seuss's vision is brought to life. This rare and beautiful book is bound to appeal to both the innocent young and the most sophisticated seniors.