The Table and the Chair - Hardcover

Lear, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006020804X ISBN 13: 9780060208042

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1993

Synopsis

A table and a chair decide to take a walk but soon lose their way and are escorted home by a duck, a mouse, and a beetle

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The perambulating parlor pieces of Lear's 19th-century poem have been reupholstered into a thoroughly modern, red-striped duo. Powers, in his debut, parades the waggish (and amazingly limber) furniture across a frequently skewed, Crayola-bright landscape, past goggle-eyed creatures both familiar and foreign. His antic, cartoony illustrations employ a lively mixture of crayon, acrylics, scratchboard and--in the eyes of Ducky Quack, paid "to see them safely back"--photo collage to achieve their stylish zaniness. To compensate for occasionally uneven pacing--some illustrations accompany an entire stanza, others a few words--the poem is reproduced in full at the end of the book. While Lear's inventive nonsense serves as an ideal introduction to the magic of poetry, some may find that this edition goes over the top, transforming silliness into burlesque. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-4-- A lesser-known nonsense work presented with energetic, full-color illustrations. The poem, describing the stroll of two pieces of furniture is pedestrian, and Power's paintings of a bright, animal-filled world fail to enliven it. The real nonsense is to waste a picture book on minor poetry by major poets. --Kathleen Whalin, Belfast Public Library, ME
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 006020804X
• ISBN 13: 9780060208042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Powers Tom