Hiccup Snickup - Hardcover

Long, Melinda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689822456 ISBN 13: 9780689822452

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

How do you cure the hiccups? Do you drink water from the wrong side of the glass? Do you hold your breath while eating an apple, or do you put a paper bag over your head and stand upside down? What if nothing you do seems to work and the hiccups have gotten completely out of control? Hiccup Snickup is the story of one little girl's quest to cure the hiccups. The whole family offers advice, with hilarious results. But it is only when Grandma explains an old family hiccup antidote, and the entire family works together, that those pesky hiccups finally go away -- or do they? Madcap illustrations by Thor Wickstrom perfectly complement this rollicking tale, making it just right for reading aloud.

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About the Author

Melinda Long is also the author of When Papa Snores. She teaches eighth-grade literature in South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, two children, and a large boxer named Moses. Melinda learned how to cure the hiccups from her grandparents when she was very young, but she still can't say it three times fast.

From Publishers Weekly

In this giddy, cumulative tale, a hiccuping girl turns to each member of her family for a cure. Her brother shouts, "Boo!," and her sister recommends drinking water "from the wrong side of a cup." Nothing works. "So there I was, scared to death, in a wet shirt, wearing a paper bag...," says the disappointed narrator, interrupted by a sudden "Hic!" Such a silly condition calls for an equally outlandish antidote, a tongue-twister provided by the girl's grandmother: "Hiccup snickup/ Rear right straight up./ Three drops in the teacup/ Will cure the hiccups." Grandma, an unconventional sort in a backward baseball cap, mimes the nonsense words (sticking her "rear right straight up" in a hilarious way), and then the whole family performs the rhyme, three times fast. Long (When Papa Snores) keeps the first-person narration short and snappy, and voice-bubble dialogue maintains the boisterous pace. Wickstrom (The Big Night Out) gives the gangly, noodle-armed characters lots of goofy personality: the girl's mother sports a spiky New Wave hairdo, the sister prefers flower-child braids and the brothers dress as a pirate and a doctor. By the end of the book the afflicted girl has recovered, but everyone else is gasping, "Hic!" This ridiculous remedy is a must for the medicine cabinet. Ages 5-9.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0689822456
• ISBN 13: 9780689822452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Wickstrom Thor