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Listen! Listen!

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Helen Mills
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Listen! Listen!, with its simple, rhythmic text and bold imaginative pictures, introduced very young children to the idea of sound and what they may hear around them.

Credits
Designer/illustrator: Paul Rand
Illustrators: Ann Rand, Paul Rand
Size: 8.25 x 10 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $4.25
Typeface: Intertype Standard, 18/18 with display in Berthold Standard
Compositor: Tri-Arts Press, Inc.
Printer: Connecticut Printers, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Glatfelter P & S Offset A-72, 80 lb.
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son
Binding materials: bound in Permalin Antique Vermilion on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: saddle-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: 80 lb., white stock supplied by the binder
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (New York, New York)