2005, ISBN: 0889842698

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[EAN: 9780889842694], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, JIM WESTERGARD, CANADIAN ART, WOOD ENGRAVING, PRINTMAKING, Humor|Gene… More...

[EAN: 9780889842694], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, JIM WESTERGARD, CANADIAN ART, WOOD ENGRAVING, PRINTMAKING, Humor|General, Art|History, Original printed wraps. 64 pp. Octavo. `Jim Westergard may not be the first to invest children's standards with modern sensibilities (think Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs or James Finn Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories), but he achieves a special blend of sarcasm and poignancy in Mother Goose Eggs, Sunnyside Up. The book pairs 25 Mother Goose nursery rhymes (many of which include an unfamiliar and disturbing stanza or two) with Westergard's engravings. With tongue in cheek, Westergard plays up the cruel nature of many classic nursery rhymes -- spousal abuse in "Tom, Tom, of Islington", child neglect in "Hush a by Baby", and religious oppression in "Goosey, Goosey, Gander", for example. He illustrates each rhyme with a two-colour portrait and a larger, black-and-white depiction of the young protagonist as they might have aged -- which is usually not very well. But it's not just an exercise in wit. "He's looking at old age and the violence of life in a way that could be considered really sick, but there's also a real pathos to it," says Jack Illingworth of the Porcupine's Quill. "On the one hand it's a joke book, and on the other it's a very serious collection of portraits." ' -- Quill & Quire Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures with hand-tipped endleaves front and back.<

ISBN: 0889842698

Those who love Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies or Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children will adore Jim Westergard's darkly comic portraits. He illustrates each nursery rhyme tw… More...

Those who love Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies or Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children will adore Jim Westergard's darkly comic portraits. He illustrates each nursery rhyme twice. First, we meet the young and not-so-innocent heroes of the poems. Then we see them in their retirement, in a rogue's gallery of unrepentant outcasts, crones and sociopaths. anthologies,art,arts music and photography,children's books,criticism,history and criticism,humor,humor and entertainment,literature and fiction,poetry Humor & Entertainment, Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated<