The Web File // FIRST EDITION //

Palatini, Margie (Illustrated by Richard EGIELSKI)

ISBN 10: 0786823666 / ISBN 13: 9780786823666

Published by Hyperion Books for Children, 2001

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STATED FIRST Edition AND FIRST Printing, with publishers full number line in place. Fine or Better volume in same condition UNclipped dust jacket. Red end-papers. Glossy pictorial boards mirror jacket. Bright full color awesome illustrations by Egielski throughout. A FLAWLESS copy. A FIRST/FIRST. Mylar protected jacket. Seller Inventory # 001363

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Web File // FIRST EDITION //

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Web Files, The [library]

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