Shrunken Treasures; Literary Classics, Short, Sweet, and Silly

Nash, Scott

ISBN 10: 0763669725 / ISBN 13: 9780763669720

Published by Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass., 2016

About this Item

Hardcover in Fine condition in a fine dust jacket, large 4to. Glossy color-illustrated boards, yellow end-papers, color illustrations. Like new, inscribed on half-title and with an original drawing by Nash to a fellow juvenile book author (for more information, contact the bookseller). Bookseller accession no.: DG825. Classic stories, modified into "delightful nuggets of nonsense", include The Odyssey, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, and Jane Eyre among others.

Seller Inventory # 000398

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shrunken Treasures; Literary Classics, Short, Sweet, and Silly
• Publisher: Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass.
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763669725
• ISBN 13: 9780763669720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Nash, Scott
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Nine weighty literary classics are transformed into delectable morsels with Scott Nash’s playful versification and whimsical illustration.

Can’t stomach all of Frankenstein? Lacking the strength to read The Odyssey? Don’t have 1,001 nights to get through Scheherazade’s ordeal? Never fear, Shrunken Treasures are here! Nine of the world’s best-known stories and books have been reduced, like slowly simmered cherries, to tart and tasty mouthfuls. Lighthearted verse turns Moby-Dick into a simple nursery song. Outrageous color makes even gloomy Hamlet seem like fun. Riotous images transform Jane Eyre’s ordeal into a whirlwind adventure. The Metamorphosis, Remembrance of Things Past, Don Quixote, and others have all been delivered from dense duty to delightful ditty in Scott Nash’s collection of hallowed classics, featuring notes about the original texts at the end.

About the Author

Scott Nash is the creator of the illuminated middle-grade novel The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate and the early reader Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain. He is also the illustrator of Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Carol Diggory Shields and many other children’s books. He lives on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine.