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Phoenix, Arizona: Library Book Supply Co., 1940 Yellow illustrated paper paste down the full length of the front board.
Cracked spine, cracked in the middle and front. The book has a string binding. The book has 53 numbered pages.<p>

The book is signed by the author kind of in the center of the centipede, has some taped large tears on the page where the
book is signed.<p>

An interesting newspaper clipping about Alice Barber and her love for
animals.<p>

She took in animals. She had 12 doberman pinchers, six goats, a burro, a donkey and a flock of pigeons that lived with the former school teacher. Years ago she created a world of friends for the Tucson schoolchildren. Carlos the centipede, Billy the beetle, Helen the spider. She was known as "the animal lady" to second graders that she taught at El Rio Elementary School, because she used to
bring everything from gila monsters to skunks into her classroom.<p>

She was a recluse, a weird old lady as one teenager… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960 Nice looking tan cloth book with title in green text , the rest of the text in black. Illustrated cover. Ex library with two library discard stamps on the blank end papers, one on the front end paper and one on the back end paper.
In text illustrations. Solid binding. Cover is very presentable.