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New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977. Early printing of the author's first Newbery-Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Patti, Katherine Paterson 1/26/82." Fine in a fine dust jacket. In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and has become a touchstone of children's literature. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Gabor Csupo from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell, starring Josh Hutcherson, Anna Sophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1978. 128 pages. Signed by Katherine Paterson directly to the title page; without inscription. First Edition; first printing with full numberline 10-1. This signed first edition, first printing requires restoration as the FFEP is detached; and endpapers need replacing. There are a total of two old school stamps within that look like they could be neutralized fairly easily. Cloth shows scuffing. In short the hard part is done; as it is a signed first printing; now it needs some restorative love. This copy is housed in a contemporary DJ that has been married to this copy. Signed first edition, first printing of the 1978 Newbery winner.

First edition of the author's first Newbery-Award winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Ann Davis Katherine Paterson 11/18/77." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and has become a touchstone of children's literature. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Gábor Csupà from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell, starring Josh Hutcherson, Anna Sophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick.

First edition of the author's first Newbery-Award winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Ann Davis Katherine Paterson 11/18/77." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and has become a touchstone of children's literature. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Gabor Csupo from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell, starring Josh Hutcherson, Anna Sophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick.

"PATERSON, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1977). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,000.Most exceptional first edition of the quintessential children's book about loss, signed by Katherine Paterson and specially annotated by her with over 1300 handwritten words describing the writing process and her experiences after publication, all intended to bolster this copy's value for a Christie's auction to benefit the PEN/American Center."Paterson, who has already earned regard with her historical fiction set in Japan, proves to be just as eloquent and assured when dealing with contemporary American children—and Americans of very different backgrounds at that. Jess, from an uneducated family in rural Virginia, has been practicing all summer to become the fastest runner at school—a reputation more desirable than his present image as 'that crazy little kid who draws all the time.' But Jess is beaten in the first race of the fifth-grade year by a newcomer—who is also the first girl ever to invade the boys' part of the playground. Soon Jess and Leslie, whose parents have moved from the suburbs because they're 'reassessing their value structure,' become close friends. On her lead they create Terabithia, a secret magic kingdom in the woods, and there in the castle stronghold she tells him wonderful stories about a gloomy prince of Denmark, or a crazy sea captain bent on killing a whale. She lends him her Narnia books and lectures him on endangered predators but he teaches her compassion for a mean older girl at school. Indeed Leslie has brought enchantment into his life. Then one morning, with the creek they must swing over to reach Terabithia dangerously swollen by rain, and Jess torn between his fear of the maneuver and his reluctance to admit it, he is saved by an invitation to visit the National Gallery with his lovely music teacher. The day is perfect—but while he is gone Leslie is killed, swinging into Terabithia on their old frayed rope. Jess' feelings range from numb denial to rage to guilt to desolation (at one point the thought occurs that 'I am now the fastest runner in the fifth grade')—typical grief reactions, but newly wrenching as Jess is no representative bibliotherapeutic model. By the end, he is ready to think about giving back to the world something of what he had received from Leslie. You'll remember her too" (Kirkus).This copy was specially annotated by Katherine Paterson for an auction at Christie's intended to benefit the PEN/American Center. Here, she has added more than 35 annotations totaling more than 1300 words providing deep insight into Paterson's ideas and intentions as the author of this work. Paterson has also added photographic images of her son, David, and his friend, Lisa, on whom the novel's protagonists were based. David also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film adaptation. This work also includes a copy of an excerpt from David's childhood journal discussing the pain of being admired for being a character in the book given that the highly traumatic death of his best friend, Lisa, was the book's inspiration.On the title page, Paterson has written: "This is where I usually autograph, having learned the proper page at the Library of Congress—Well, they should know, shouldn't they? So here's the autograph—Katherine Paterson 1/1/14."On the front pastedown, she has written: "One of the early reviews said this was a classic case of 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' Nobody at T.Y. Crowell felt it did justice to Donna's original, but I don't recall any disappointment with it and certainly the illustrations in the book are lovely.On the verso of the front free endpaper, Paterson has written: "First editions of Bridge are a bit hard to come by almost 40 years later as the first printing was a modest 7,000 copies. When it won the Newbery in January 1978, a second edition was launched immediately, but the truck carrying the unbound books got stuck in a blizzard and for days no one knew where it was. The publishers were frantic, to say the least."On the copyright page, she has written: "Lisa had gone with her family to a Delaware beach. She was dancing on a rock above the beach when she was struck by lightning. Try explaining that to your eight-year-old son. I couldn't, so I wrote a book to make sense of the tragedy for myself, because life often doesn't make sense, but a story will need to."On the dedication page, Paterson has affixed color photographic images of David and Lisa, as well as a copy of an excerpt from David's journal comparing being the real-life Jess to having a cool scar that draws attention from the underlying pain of the injury.Opposite the first page of text, Paterson has written: "There was an article in some flight magazine about bad first sentence in otherwise good books. When a friend told me that a book of mine was included, I immediately quoted the first sentence of Bridge and, of course, I was right. But, heck, people have kept reading past it." The sentence in question reads: "Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity—Good."On page 1: "Too many similes on one short page?"On page 4: "An African-American fifth-grader asked me if I'd named Jesse Aarons after Jesse Owens. 'Yes, I did,' I said, 'but I hadn't realized it until you asked the question.' Readers are so smart." Paterson has also underlined the character's full name.On page 10, referring to Jess' comical drawing of a hippo, the details of which are underlined by Paterson: "This was a shared joke with a friend from my childhood."On page 12, referring to a description of Jess' teacher, Miss Edmunds: "Description fits my 7th grade English teacher—a truly beautiful woman."On page 16, next to an arrow pointing to the printed line "Baripity, baripity, baripity": "It keeps coming back like a song."At the beginning of Chapter Three: "The description of Lark Creek School—the crowded baseme