Twig: 60th Anniversary Edition

Elizabeth Orton Jones. Purple House Press, $18.95 (152pp) ISBN 978-1-930900-05-9

A girl brightens up her bare-bones world when she turns a discarded tomato can into a home for fairies in Elizabeth Orton Jones's Twig. This 60th-anniversary edition features original artwork by Jones, who won the Caldecott Medal for her work in Prayer for a Child. (Feb.)

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