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If flu affects
Your local dragon,
Be sure to drive
A fireproof wagon."
New Yorker cover artist Michael Roberts's Mumbo Jumbo is breathtaking, not only for its lavish cut-out art but also for the sublimely macabre verses. Roberts, who first wowed readers with his Jungle ABC, is back, this time to set some spines tingling with bats, yetis, imps, and bloody bones. Older readers will fall over laughing at the sly humor in rhymes about spiders' Web sites, cranky vampires, and a stressed knight too tired after saving damsels and slaying dragons all day to be "a disco diva or for Saturday knight fever." Children will giggle on a different level, felling a delicious chill at the thought of eyeball stew and ghosts playing hide and seek. Every reader will do a double take at Roberts's remarkable, wildly colorful illustrations. Repetitive themes--dozens of skulls leaning menacingly forward, frantically leaping frogs, wildly dancing imps--pack a memorable visual punch. Each letter of the alphabet--that's right, this is also an ABC book--inspires a witty verse and full-page illustration. The very smallest reader will delight in identifying the featured, ghost-guarded letter and matching it with its corresponding picture. (Ages 3 and older) --Emilie Coulter
Gr 4 Up-True to its subtitle, this oversized collection of brief verses is not for the fainthearted. The subjects, one for each letter of the alphabet, range from the expected bats, vampires, and witches to the somewhat more exotic eyeball stew, a thieving harlequin, quicksand, and a yeti. The alphabet serves as a framework for clever selections, which are accompanied by mesmerizing cut-paper illustrations. Bold colors, varying font sizes, and shapes of all sorts vie for attention on each page of this arresting book. The end result is a perfect example of a picture book for older children, teenagers, and adults. Many references are fairly sophisticated, including mentions of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and the knight "too tired to be a disco diva." Magic or tragic, Mumbo Jumbo casts a spell that is hard to resist.-Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VA
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