Jane's Blanket

By Arthur Miller and Al Parker

Soft and warm, Jane's blanket had always been there to comfort her, and she couldn't imagine drifting off to sleep without it. But with the passage of time, Jane grew bigger and bigger and her beloved pink blanket got smaller and smaller. This tender tale of how Jane learned to do without her blanket is a story that children and adults will be happy to share.
In his only work for children, the author of Death of a Salesman offers a different kind of story. Arthur Miller's heartwarming tale of a child's growth and maturity is accompanied by charming images by Al Parker, a prominent illustrator and founder of the Famous Artists School.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: May 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9780486805139

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons, closely followed by Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing includes Focus, a novel; The Misfits, first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and 'Salesman' in Beijing, non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Resurrection Blues. His novella, Plain Girl, was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence, in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.

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Jane’s Blanket

Arthur Miller

Jane’s Blanket

Illustrated by Al Parker

Dover Publications, Inc.

Mineola, New York

for Jane

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Crowell-Collier Press, New York, in 1963.

International Standard Book Number

eISBN-13: 978-0-486-80513-9

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

79682501 2015

www.doverpublications.com

Contents

Jane’s Blanket

One time there was a girl. Her name was Jane. She was a little baby. And she had a blanket. It was a small blanket. It was pink, and soft, and warm.

In the morning she woke up. And the first thing she did was to touch the blanket, and it felt soft and warm when she put her fingers on it. Jane loved her pink blanket.

Then her mother gave her milk. Her mother held Jane in her lap and gave her