AIGA Design Archives: Theodore and the Talking Mushroom

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Design Category

Book design, 1971

Art director/designer

Janet Townsend

Collection

(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This is a moral fable of a mouse wherein it is shown that lying does not pay.

Special features: Front cover blind embossed; backbone stamped in black foil.

Credits

Illustrator: Leo Lionni
Author: Leo Lionni
Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 25,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: Linotype Century Expanded, 14/18, with display in Linotype Century Expanded Italic
Typesetter: Howard O. Bullard, Inc.
Printer: Pearl-Pressman Liberty Printing & Litho Company
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Warren Patina, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horiwitz & Son.
Binding materials: bound in GSB Desert Sun 5 on .085 pasted board
Binding method: Side sewn and square-back
Endpapers: white stock supplied by the binder
Publisher: Pantheon Books (New York, New York)