Paul F. Svenningsen’s only wordless novel, Little Stranger, plots the course of having a baby from conception to delivery. Somewhat gender-driven in a typical 1950s manner and a charming little book.
- Title: Little Stranger
- Author and Illustrator: Paul F. Svenningsen
- Year: 1951
- ISBN: not applicable
- Publisher: Putnam & Company Ltd.
- Place of publication: 42 Great Russell Street, London, WC1.
- Printer: Chas. Pearson & Son Ltd
- Copyright: Svenningsen?
- Size: octavo
- Dust jacket: Yes- designed by the author?
- Binding: hard cover, thin boards
- Cover: Paper-covered pictorial boards, same as DJ
- Language: English titles, etc
- Paginated: unpaginated
- Printed: verso and recto
- Edition: Trade only, not limited
- Description: black line drawings
- Edition size: as per the back flap of the 1969 edition of Little Angel by Svenningsen, 50,000 copies of Little Stranger had been printed to date.
1954 German translation; Was kommt denn da?
Image credit: Antiquariat Wölfel