The Adventures of Isabel (A Poetry Speaks Experience) - Hardcover

Nash, Ogden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402210272 ISBN 13: 9781402210273

Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2008

Synopsis

Meet Isabel, a remarkable girl (based on Ogden Nash's own daughter) who encounters four fearsome foes and doesn't worry, scream or scurry. Courage, spunk and a lot of humor help make Isabel's adventures something you'll share over and over again.

Beautiful watercolor paintings bring The Adventures of Isabel vividly to life, while the audio CD of Ogden Nash reading his classic poem will let everyone follow the amazing exploits of Isabel!

As a bonus on audio CD, Ogden Nash reads The Adventures of Isabel

Ogden Nash was born in New York in 1902 and wrote The Adventures of Isabel in the 1930s. He published hundreds of poems, many of them for his two daughters, Linell and Isabel. They occasionally appeared as characters in his poems, as Isabel does in The Adventures of Isabel. Nash died in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971.

Bridget Starr Taylor and her husband have two sons, a daughter, and very recently twin grandchildren. She and her family live in New York and spend summers and weekends at her farm in Connecticut. Bridget rides a bike wherever she goes and plays tennis, most often in polka-dotted shorts!

About this title

About the Author:

Ogden Nash was born in New York in 1902. He published his first children's book, "The Cricket of Caradon" in 1925. He would publish 19 books of poetry, as well as being on the staff of New Yorker magazine. Nash died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971.

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Excerpt from Adventures of Isabel

Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.

The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you!
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry,
Isabel didn't scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.

Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
The witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402210272
• ISBN 13: 9781402210273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Taylor Bridget