Tajar Tales

While working at a children's camp in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Jane Shaw Ward began telling whimsical and fantastical tales about a creature known as a Tajar, a combination of a tiger, jaguar, and badger. The tales proved so popular, that she ultimately wrote them down, and the first volume of Tajar Tales was published while she was working as a social worker with the YWCA in China in 1921. A version illustrated by H.L. Drucklieb was published in 1925, of which this is the 1947 revised edition. The various stories recount the Tajar's encounters with a forest ranger and a witch, as well as how he learned to swim and the various adventures he encountered along the way, accompanied by wonderful line drawings that perfectly capture the mischievous whimsy of this fantastical creature.

This copy is Good condition with a dust jacket in poor condition. There is some damage to the top of the spine of the book, and one of the front pages has a large gold and black sticker from the Girl Guides of Canada, though this does not at all affect any text or illustrations as the page is blank. The dust jacket is in poor condition with much wear and large missing sections, but what remains has been preserved by a plastic protective cover. Internally, the text and illustrations are entirely in tact, and this is a small volume with much joy still to give.