Our stunningly illustrated edition is by Charles Santore
You notice lots of new things re-reading children’s books as an adult. A word about place attachment from Dorothy in tonight’s bedtime story:
The scarecrow could not understand why she wished to leave this beautiful country and go back to the gray place called Kansas.
“That is because you have no brains,” answered the girl. “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, people would rather live there than anywhere else. There is no place like home.”
