Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Published: 2004 Penguin Young Reader (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0670062693
Mother Goose, Longfellow and Edgar Allen Poe get a jolt of unshakable Scieszkan nonsense in this addictive collection of twisted belt-it-out classics.
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Comment by Andy
December 3, 2007 @ 8:59 am
It’s interesting to hear the reasoning behind not buying this book sooner. You always hear how the cover can be such an important hook. I wonder if Lane Smith designed the cover or if it was an in-house designer at Penguin.
Comment by Just One More Book!!
December 3, 2007 @ 9:06 am
Andy,
Ya, I guess I’m likely in the minority about the cover. The book has been a massively huge success and, based on the past work of Lane and Jon alone I should have bought it. Maybe the fact that both my degrees are in Math and that I work in high tech gives me that pavlovian reflex to not pick up anything that looks slightly textbookish.
I’m so glad I did finally buy it because it is So SO SO good and such a huge hit with the family.
Incidentally, the look of the cover matters even less now that the book has been trucked back & forth to so many different locations by our addicted-to-it daughters — it’s bent and water ruffled and looking very very loved!
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