The Hole Book (Peter Newell Children's Books) [Hardcover]

Peter Newell (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Peter Newell Children's Books

Meet Algernon Bracket and Orlando Pease. Find out how a rocket launched from the basement floor of an apartment building is sure to interrupt a person's day.

Long before Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss, an American artist delighted a generation of children and their parents with hilarious, topsy-turvy illustrations and slightly subversive tales told in rhyme. This was illustrator/author Peter Newell. Working over eighty years ago, Newell remains as profoundly enjoyable-and incredibly popular-as ever. Tuttle is proud to be reissuing his three classic works, sure to delight the young and old alike.

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About the Author

Peter Newell (1862 –1924) began his career painting portraits, using crayons as a medium, before turning to children's book. Besides his own books, Newell illustrated Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He is the author of the Tuttle Classics The Hole Book, The Slant Book, and The Rocket Book.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; 1ST edition (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804814988
• ISBN-13: 978-0804814980
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Newell verse is witty, sharp and humorous, May 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hole Book (Peter Newell Children's Books) (Hardcover)

My parents were given this book when they were children, read it to me when I was a child and now I read it to my children. Children thoroughly enjoy this book but it wasn't until I picked this book up and started to read this as an adult did I fully appreciate why Tom Pott's bullet suddenly stopped when it hit the new brides freshly baked cake. Read this book to your children and yourself, for all of you will enjoy this book tremendously.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. It sticks with you for decades., November 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hole Book (Peter Newell Children's Books) (Hardcover)

Of all of the books that I read when I was a child, this is the only one that I truly never forget. I have captivated the attention of my friends and their children by reciting some of the best verses. The rhyme and meter is exquisite, providing an almost musical theme through each episode. The vocabulary is perfect for young people and fun for adults. It utilizes advanced words, while not burying their meaning from beginning readers. The characters lend themselves to creative new voices for each reader to explore. All of theses remarkable qualities, and it maintains a serious lesson for young people, that guns are not for fooling around.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but..., July 8, 2007

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This review is from: The Hole Book (Peter Newell Children's Books) (Hardcover)

I remember this 1908 book from my childhood. My copy originally belonged to my father (born in 1900), and would probably be a priceless collector's item now (along with those baseball cards from the 1940's), but it got lost some time in the last 60 years! So I enjoyed this book as a nostalgia trip, and the text and pictures were even cleverer than I remembered them. A couple of caveats... as other reviewers have pointed out, the registration of the hole isn't very good, which detracts from some of the pages. And the book isn't complete: without notice, at least one pair of pages that I remember (possibly more) has been censored, as a rather mild racial stereotype (which is why the book has the rather odd number of 56 pages).