The Charles Addams Mother Goose
by Addams, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689848749
- ISBN 13
- 9780689848742
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. New Yorker cartoonist (and creator of the altogether ooky Addams Family characters) Charles Addams tampers with tradition to great effect in The Charles Addams Mother Goose, first published in 1967, and now reissued as a deluxe edition. While Ms. Goose's original nursery rhymes remain unchanged, Addams casts his spell on a selected few poems with new visual twists. A less wholesome, more anemic Mistress Mary has never been seen, and her bare-lightbulb-lit basement garden of mushrooms and heads of "pretty maids all in a row" is quite unsettling. Jack Sprat and his wife are, of course, cannibals. Nine-day-old porridge is disgusting... so naturally a witch is the porridge preparer, and goblins are the only ones who would like it "nine days old." Humpty Dumpty's story, on the other hand, feels a little cheerier than the original: rather than leaving the egg irreparably broken, the illustrator shows a dinosaur hatching! Tee Addams, Charles Addams's wife, writes an insightful introduction for this lovely, oversized edition, and the book closes with a scrapbook of family photos and pictures of Addams's earlier work. Kids familiar with Mother Goose's rhymes will be delighted (and perhaps only slightly terrified) by Addams's playful interpretations. Record # 371972
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 371972
- Title
- The Charles Addams Mother Goose
- Author
- Addams, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st thus
- ISBN 10
- 0689848749
- ISBN 13
- 9780689848742
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Children's Illustrated, Cartoons, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Illustrated;
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