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The Lucky Coin
With flaps to open and close, this book tells of the travels of a special golden coin that is actually found in the back of every book.
12 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1990
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February 11, 2024
Gorgeous. The illustrations are incredibly detailed, and the flaps are double-sided, so the characters depicted have fronts and backs to see, and wedding guests give way to the band and much revelry... the flaps are also attached to a shaped (specific to the illustration) frame, so that the entire image has unexpected depth and there aren't any awkward border gaps in the underlying painting, etc.
A very high-quality picture book about the journey of a lucky coin and the circumstances and characters it encounters along the way. It was quite an interesting short read, too.
NB: Ours is used, and still in very good nick (again, well-constructed, well-planned), but is missing the actual lucky coin that came with the book. I had to find a suitable replacement - it needs to be gold in colour. Canadian loonies don't fit (too big), GB pound coins don't either.. the best I found was a 20 cent Euro coin, and there's still a little wiggle room. It's approximately a 2.5cm diameter hole, of standard coin-ish depth (so not a Pound coin. Hole is about 0.2 to 0.3 cm deep) - data specific to ISBN 0224026356 / 9780224026352 "Liz Underhill's story re-told by Margaret Greaves ( The Lucky Coin - 1990 Intervisual Comm. Inc., L.A. CA 90045... printed and bound in Colombia, S. A. (South America? Never seen a continent specified...!), 7.95 Net "IN UK ONLY". Los Angeles, Colombia, and the UK. Huh.)
A very high-quality picture book about the journey of a lucky coin and the circumstances and characters it encounters along the way. It was quite an interesting short read, too.
NB: Ours is used, and still in very good nick (again, well-constructed, well-planned), but is missing the actual lucky coin that came with the book. I had to find a suitable replacement - it needs to be gold in colour. Canadian loonies don't fit (too big), GB pound coins don't either.. the best I found was a 20 cent Euro coin, and there's still a little wiggle room. It's approximately a 2.5cm diameter hole, of standard coin-ish depth (so not a Pound coin. Hole is about 0.2 to 0.3 cm deep) - data specific to ISBN 0224026356 / 9780224026352 "Liz Underhill's story re-told by Margaret Greaves ( The Lucky Coin - 1990 Intervisual Comm. Inc., L.A. CA 90045... printed and bound in Colombia, S. A. (South America? Never seen a continent specified...!), 7.95 Net "IN UK ONLY". Los Angeles, Colombia, and the UK. Huh.)
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