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Shrunken Treasures Literary Classics, Short, Sweet, and Silly

Author(s): Scott Nash

Picture books

Nine weighty literary classics are transformed into delectable morsels with Scott Nash s playful versification and whimsical illustration. Can t stomach all of "Frankenstein"? Lacking the strength to read "The Odyssey"? Don t have 1,001 nights to get through Scheherazade s ordeal? Never fear, "Shrunken Treasures" are here! Nine of the world s best-known stories and books have been reduced, like slowly simmered cherries, to tart and tasty mouthfuls. Lighthearted verse turns "Moby-Dick" into a simple nursery song. Outrageous color makes even gloomy "Hamlet" seem like fun. Riotous images transform Jane Eyre s ordeal into a whirlwind adventure. "The Metamorphosis, Remembrance of Things Past, Don Quixote, "and others have all been delivered from dense duty to delightful ditty in Scott Nash s collection of hallowed classics, featuring notes about the original texts at the end."

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The rhymes are ripping, the poems poignant, the puns are ever so much fun and the illustrations illuminating. Scott Nash s talent is exploding on these pages and I am forever a solid fan. Jesica Sweedler DeHart, bookseller at BookPeople of Moscow"

Scott Nash is the creator of the illuminated middle-grade novel "The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate" and the early reader "Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain." He is also the illustrator of "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp "by Carol Diggory Shields and many other children s books. He lives on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine."

General Fields

  • : 9780763669720
  • : Candlewick Press
  • : Candlewick Press
  • : 0.567
  • : 01 February 2016
  • : 28.70 cmmm X 24.80 cmmm
  • : United States
  • : 01 April 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Scott Nash
  • : Hardback
  • : Scott Nash
  • : en
  • : 40
  • : illustrations