The Web Files

Palatini, Margie

ISBN 10: 0786823666 ISBN 13: 9780786823666

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2001

Synopsis

Web Files, The [library]

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Review:

"6:32 a.m. This is the farm. My partner, Bill, and I were working the barnyard shift. It was peaceful. Quiet. Then we got the call."

Much of this fowl-filled homage to Dragnet (DUM DE DUM DUM!) will be lost on kids--and a few grownups, for that matter. But that doesn't make this straight-faced send-up of that famous crime-partner show--and a dozen-odd fairy tales thrown in for good measure--any less funny.

"So you're saying you were robbed, is that right, ma'am? What exactly is missing from the nest, ma'am? Eggs, ma'am? Chicks, ma'am?" But it turns out that it's peppers that have gone missing--a peck of "perfect purple, almost-pickled peppers." But nobody was talking: "We had Horner in the corner and were trying to make Little Boy Blue quack." Then our intrepid pair of web-footed investigators gets a break in the case when a tub of "tartest tasty tomahtoes" turns up missing. DUM DE DUM DUM!

It's just more wit from the wonderful Margie Palatini, who brought us Piggie Pie and Zoom Broom, backed up on this assignment by the spirited illustrations of Richard Egielski. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes

About the Author:

Margie Palatini knows her cop shows - and her children's books. She has written numerous picture books, including Moosetache and Mooseltoe, illustrated by Henry Cole, and Zoom Broom and Ding Dong Ding Dong, both illustrated by Howard Find.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786823666
• ISBN 13: 9780786823666
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32