| Awful Ogre's Awful Day Contributor(s): Prelutsky, Jack (Author), Zelinsky, Paul O. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0060774592 ISBN-13: 9780060774592 Publisher: Greenwillow Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: I'm an awful, awful ogre, Absolutely awful ogre. I'm so awful, Awful Ogre Is my awful ogre name ... Awful Ogre is huge, hungry, horrible -- and totally lovable. Larger than life, Awful Ogre packs into one day enough excitement, imagination, emotion, and sheer ebullience to last most of us a lifetime. In his awful, irresistible way, he steals the heart of every reader. Ages 6+ |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - Humorous |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 9" W x 11.82" (0.48 lbs) 40 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beloved children's poet Jack Prelutsky and acclaimed illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky have created a tour de force picture book of epic proportions and infinite appeal It's pouring. The wind is blowing down trees. Awful Ogre's rattlesnake wakes him. He tickles his piranha, scatters his rats, and disengages his leeches. Another wonderful day is about to begin. Awful Ogre, huge, hungry, horrible--and totally lovable, will steal the heart of every reader. Larger than life--larger, in fact, than all other ogres, Awful Ogre packs into one day enough excitement, imagination, emotion, and sheer ebullience to last most of us a lifetime. New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing," a School Library Journal Best Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book |
Contributor Bio(s): Prelutsky, Jack: - Jack Prelutsky is the best-selling author of more than fifty books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block, illustrated by James Stevenson, and Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, illustrated by Carin Berger. Jack Prelutsky lives in Washington State. Zelinsky, Paul O.: -Paul O. Zelinsky is the illustrator of Anne Isaac's Dust Devil and creator of the now-classic interactive book called The Wheels on the Bus. His retelling of Rapunzel was awarded the 1998 Caldecott Medal. Rumpelstitlskin, Hansel and Gretel and Swamp Angel with different authors all garnered Paul a Caldecott Honor. Since 1991 Paul O. Zelinsky has lived in the same apartment with his wife Deborah in northern Brooklyn, New York. |