What Really Happened to Humpty?
From the Files of a Hard-boiled Detective
$21.78
- Paperback
40 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2014
Summary
A scrambled mess …Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or–as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks–was he pushed? This case isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Suspects are plenty (as are the puns) in this scrambled story of nursery rhyme noir. Was it Little Miss Muffet? There’s something not right about her tuffet. Or could it have been Chicken Little, who’s always been a little cagey? Or was it the Big Bad Wolf, who’s got a rap sheet as long as a moonless night? Joe’s on the beat and determined t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580893916 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580893910 |
| Author: | Jeanie Franz Ransom, Stephen Axelsen |
| Publisher: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 281mm x 217mm x 4mm |
| Series: | Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Clever wordplay marks Ransom’s (What Do Your Parents Do? [When You’re Not Home]) fast-paced, noir-styled offering. Detective Joe Dumpty unravels the real reason his brother, Humpty, took a spill, interviewing characters that hail from the pages of Mother Goose (she puts in an appearance, too). The puns, a little more subtle than in similar stories, are on target for the suggested audience, e.g., “I looked at my brother. He wasn’t moving. Whoever did this was gonna fry!” Axelsen (the Piccolo and Annabelle series) provides plenty of humor with busy cartoon illustrations, many of them inset with boxed vignettes; Chicken Little and her offspring, for example, wear crash helmets and reside in a fortified bunker. The noir conventions add a layer of sophistication to the nursery-rhyme setting, ratcheting up the book’s appeal for primary-grade readers.—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Jeanie Franz Ransom
Jeanie Franz Ransom is the author of several books, including WHAT PARENTS DO WHEN YOU’RE NOT HOME and GRANDMA U. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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