Library records note: "Includes songs with music".
Price from review NY Herald Tribune 1949-11-13 pE8; same-day publisher panel advertisement NYHT and NY Times "Scribners presents some wonderful new books for children!"; same-day capsule Louisville Courier-Journal "New Titles for Children's Week Cover the World".
Publication date inferred from that coverage, and earlier newspaper advertisements not found.
(Brief contemporary coverage in Kirkus Reviews provides no date, as posted online.)
