HERMAN, JOHN & DIANE DILLON & LEO DILLON — One Winter's Night

New York: Philomel Books, 2003. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0399234187. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Color Illustrations; 10 1/4 x 10 1/4; Unpaginated pages; Hard cover is blue illustrated board with light blue lettering on spine. Slight bumping and rubbing to boards. DJ has slight rubbing and scuffing; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Pages not numbered; 28 pages. Right hand page is color, left hand page, with the text, is in b/w. Beautiful drawings illustrate the story. 'Martha is only a cow, but even a cow needs a safe, warm place on such a cold, snowy night-especially when she is about to give birth. She finds a house, but it is deserted. She finds a barn, but it is locked. Meanwhile, in a parallel story depicted only through art spots, a man and a woman and a donkey make their way across these same wintry fields. At last, Martha follows a star in the east to a shed . But she is not alone there. The man and woman are sheltering there too, and in a wonderfully mysterious way, another baby is about to be born this winter's night. Leo and Diane Dillon's art blends warmly with John Herman's lyrical text as parallel journeys of two very special mothers merge in this soft, gentle tale about one miraculous night. '. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .