Monte Packham: Rhyme Time (Hardcover)

Monte Packham

ISBN 10: 3958297749 / ISBN 13: 9783958297746

Published by Steidl Publishers, Gottingen, 2021

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Hardcover. Rhyme Time is an unconventional illustrated book for children and all those with a healthy relationship to their inner child. Imaginatively combining retro images with new rhymes, the book brings visual nostalgia and the traditions of children's verse up to date. The illustrations are 1960s line drawings Packham carefully colored-in as a child in 1988; now, more than 30 years later, he has rearranged these vibrant images into playful stories and captured them in rhyme. The unexpected results are both original tales, like that of Humphrey who chased a pesky elf from his garden with a cricket bat, and tongue-in-cheek reinterpretations of beloved fairy tales and nursery rhymes-if Snow White isn't actually the fairest in the land, then who is? And why did Jack and Jill really climb that steep and nasty hill?On rainy days I like to bakeSome bread or scones, a pie or cake;I weigh the flour, pour the milkAnd make my batters smooth as silk.Indeed my favorite foods are sweet:At every mealtime I could eatJust ice cream, jellies, chocolate eggs,Or sugar-coated dragons' legs! Monte Packham Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monte Packham: Rhyme Time (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Steidl Publishers, Gottingen
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3958297749
• ISBN 13: 9783958297746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Packham, Monte
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

An unconventional illustrated book for children and all those with a healthy relationship to their inner child

Imaginatively combining retro images with new rhymes, Rhyme Time brings visual nostalgia and the traditions of children’s verse up to date. The illustrations are 1960s line drawings that Monte Packham (born 1981)―author of ABC Photography and Photo Adventures―carefully colored in as a child in 1988; now, more than 30 years later, he has rearranged these vibrant images into playful stories and captured them in rhyme.

The unexpected results are both original tales, like that of Humphrey who chased a pesky elf from his garden with a cricket bat, and tongue-in-cheek reinterpretations of beloved fairy tales and nursery rhymes―if Snow White isn’t actually the fairest in the land, then who is? And why did Jack and Jill really climb that steep and nasty hill?