Other editions of book Yonie Wondernose/Out of Print

This paperback edition is now out of print. However, we do have a hardcover edition available at the same price.Seven-year-old Yonie is a wondernose because he can't keep his nose out of anything and is always getting into trouble. When his parents go away overnight, he's left as the man of the house and promised a special reward if he can keep himself and the farm out of trouble. But that night a bad storm brings trouble--the kind that not even a full-grown man could handle easily. A Caldecott Honor Book. Illustrations Ages 7-11. Pub: 7/97. .

Ach!; Yonie scolded himself, "here I am, being a Wondernose, just like always.Seven-year-old Yonie is a wondernose because he can't keep his nose out of anything. It seems that his nose is always getting him into trouble. When Yonie's parents go away overnight, he's left as the man of the house and promised a special reward if he can keep himself and the farm out of trouble. But that night a bad storm brings trouble the kind that not even a full-grown man could handle easily.A Caldecott Honor Book

This is not a Print-on-Demand, reprint or facsimile book. It is a hardcover book with cover color illustrations. It is a Stated First Edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York in 1944. Lithographed by the Polygraphic Company of America. The pages are not numbered. Yonie is a little Pennsylvania Dutch (Amish) boy who was left alone with his grandmother. His father gave him the responsibility to take care of the animals in the farm. The things he had to do was supply water and getting wood for his grandmother. His father gave him the responsibility of a man and not be wondernose or get distracted. Later on in the story lightning strikes the barn and starts a fire. Yonie figures how to save all the animals, in which he did and proved to his father he is a man by saving the animals. The author and illustrator, Marguerite de Angeli (1889 – 1987) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her 1946 story Bright April was the first children’s book to address the divisive issue of racial prejudice. She was twice named a Caldecott Honor Book illustrator, first in 1945 for Yonie Wondernose and again in 1955 for Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes. She received a 1950 Newbery Medal, for The Door in the Wall, which also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961, a 1957 Newbery Honor mention for Black Fox of Lorne, a 1961 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the 1968 Regina Medal.