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Wee One. Vintage 1940's harddcover children's book. Illustrations by Connie Christie.
AU$55
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Vintage hardcover children’s book - Wee One, adapted and illustrated by Connie Christie. VINTAGE title - SCARCE

Printed in Australia by Digest Juvenile Productions
Undated, circa late 1940s
Number of pages: 16
Number full colour plates:
First edition

This book in is fair condition. The front and back covers are well worn and showing their age with a some damage especially to the back cover. Front cover although aged still retains its vibrant colours. Pages inside whilst shed are in very good condition and colour plates pages are in excellent condition still retaining their bright and vibrant colours.

SYNOPSIS
The story of a fairy child, who was no bigger than your thumb. The story of a fairy child, who was no bigger than your thumb.
Wee One, stolen by an old toad, escapes marriage to Toad’s son and a life in the marsh through the intervention of the riverbank creatures. Her kindness to a swallow is repaid when he helps her escape from her next betrothal to a mole and flies her to a summer palace where she meets a prince of the flowers and lives happily ever after.

Christie worked as a commercial artist, firstly for Val Morgan, the cinema advertising production company, and then for G. J. Coles Pty Ltd, then a chain store company. Working for Coles for 18 years, she designed its company logo and became known as the "Coles Orchid".[3]
CONNIE CHRISTIE
In 1939 she wrote and illustrated her first book, The Adventures of Pinkishell, claimed to be Australia’s first children’s book about mermaids
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