by Charles J. Finger

Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1943.

First edition, first printing.

A Story Parade Picture Book.

Humble, freckled Tad North, (who speaks with a slightly uneducated dialect), wins a medal for his heroic rescue of--among others--a black family adrift in the Arkansas River flood.

A heart-warming regional story based on real events.

Evocatively illustrated in pen-and-ink and watercolors by Pitz, who was schooled in the Brandywine tradition, and wrote/illustrated over 160 books.

A whisper of wear to the lower shelf-edge, else fine in red cloth over color-illustrated boards; in a very nearly fine dust jacket that betrays a small patch of very faint spots to the lower edge of the front panel; original 50 cent price '50 50' still intact to the front inner flap.

An exceptionally lovely copy of a charming and historical children's collectible.

Square Octavo.

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