A 1991 edition of Virginia Woolf's children's book, Nurse Lugton's Curtain, in which we enter a world of monkeys, zebras, and lions, and a queen and an ogress.
Nurse Lugton's Curtain, written by Virginia Woolf, illustrated by Julie Vivas. 1991, first edition thus, first printing. Gulliver Books, an imprint of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Virginia Woolf wrote Nurse Lugton's Curtain in the 1920s for her niece, and the story was lost in the pages of the manuscript for her best known book, Mrs. Dallaway, until rediscovered and eventually published in 1965.
"Nurse Lugton was asleep. She had given one great snore. She had dropped her head; thrust her spectacles up her forehead and there she sat by the fender with her finger sticking up and a thimble on it; and her needle full of cotton hanging down; and she was snoring, snoring; and on her knees, covering the whole of her apron, was a large piece of figured blue stuff. The animals with which it was covered did not move till Nurse Lugton snored for the fifth time. One, two, three, four, five - ah, the old woman was at last asleep..."
In this edition, Australian illustrator Julie Vivas brings life to Woolf's humorous, imaginative gift to her niece with bold, colorful drawings. Dare you to look at an animal print the same way.
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