*SIGNED BOOKPLATE*

Du iz tak?What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soonwith the help of a pill bug named Ickythey wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop downbooby voobeck!only to be carried off in turn.Su!With exquisitely detailed illustrations and tragicomic flair, Carson Ellis invites readers to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in even the humblest backyard.Su!

ELLIS, Carson. Du Iz Tak? [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick Press [2016]. 4to, [48]pp. Color pictorial boards. Green endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by author/artist Carson Ellis laid in.

First edition. 2017 Caldecott Honor Book! A charming picture book filled with exquisitely detailed illustrations, a wonderfully playful invented language, and tragicomic flair, Carson Ellis invites readers to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in even the humblest backyard.