Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and Other Palindromes - Hardcover

Agee, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374334730 ISBN 13: 9780374334734

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991

Synopsis

Zany black-and-white drawings complement a selection of palindromes, words or sentences that read the same forward and backward. All ages.

About this title

About the Author

Jon Agee, the author-illustrator-playwright-librettist-palindromist, grew up along the Hudson River in Nyack, New York. As a kid, he created picture books, detective comics, and flip books made out of train ticket stubs. In high school, he spent an inordinate amount of time in the art room. In college, at the Cooper Union in New York City, he studied painting, dabbled in animation, and made an "art" film. Soon after graduating, in 1981, he began getting his first books published.

He is probably best known for his fourth book, The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, in which a mysterious painter's pictures come to life, wreaking havoc in turn-of-the-century Paris. His other books, featuring canine professors, forgotten astronauts, and guffawing grumps, are at times quirky, nonsensical, satiric, and always humorous. Their sophisticated wit appeals to kids and adults alike.

Somewhere along the line, Jon became obsessed with creating words and phrases that read the same backwards and forwards. The result was Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog! and its companion volume, So Many Dynamos!.

Jon has also written the book and lyrics to two musicals, B.O.T.C.H. and Flies in the Soup, which were performed at the TADA! theater in New York. He would happily continue to pursue this enterprise if he didn't need to eat.

In his spare time, Jon does a lot of doodling; or he might write a tongue twister, or an anagram, or a poem. Sometimes he draws a cartoon that gets published in The New Yorker magazine, which pleases him very much.

From Publishers Weekly

Agee's lighthearted black-and-white cartoons illustrate a roundup of clever palindromes--words and phrases that can be read from left to right and in reverse. Among the 60-odd entries are those depicting a handful of long-necked animals in the parking lot of the "Llama Mall"; "Emily's sassy lime" squirting a man in the eye; a chef screaming "Stop, pots!" to his runaway cookery; a feline sidling up to a bar and ordering a "pint a' catnip"; and a couple stranded on a small island engaged in conversation (" 'Nora, a raft . . .' 'Is it far, Aaron?' "). The publisher plays along good-naturedly: note the book's price and ISBN. It all adds up to plenty of fun . . . nuf said? How about one more: there's plenty in these pages to elicit more than one hearty "hah hah." All ages.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0374334730
• ISBN 13: 9780374334734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1