The Lucky Coin

by Margaret Greaves, Liz Underhill (Illustrator)

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

About the author

Born 1914. Margaret Greaves was educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, and taught English in schools and at St. Mary's College of Education, Cheltenham. She died in June 1995

Reviews

[Capn · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.)