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The Mouse and the Song

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director
Mildred Kantrowitz
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This children’s story is based on fact. While Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, he wrote of the house who inhabited his cellar, shared his lunches, loved hearing flute music. Possibly, like the mouse in this story, she even learned to sing.

Credits
Designers: Mildred Kantrowitz, Joseph Low
Illustrator: Joseph Low
Production manager: Al Greenberg
Author: Marilynne K. Roach
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Pages: 48
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Linotype Times Roman, 14/20, with display on Monotype Times Roman
Typesetter: The Composing Room Inc.
Printer: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Smoothtone Opaque (Oxford), 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Milton Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Western Publishing
Binding materials: bound in pre-printed Antique Permalin on 95 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Parents’ Magazine Press (New York, New York)