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5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Pogo,
By wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
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This review is from: The Pogo Stepmother Goose (The Best of Pogo) (Hardcover)
A few fairy tales, a parable or two, and some flat-out goofing. It's not all Pogo and crew, but it's an incredible collection by the hand that created that blue-eyed `possum.
The first story in this little book is about the Pogo crowd, though. It from the Cold War era, putting a silly face on the superstitions and scares of that nervous time. Two brief bits of doggerel, sort of an intermission, get the reader ready for The Town on The Edge of The End. It's a retelling of the Pied Piper. Yes, he does pipe the children away in the end, but it means something new this time. There's a little racial stereotyping here, but of an affectionate sort - much gentler than one might expect from the early civil rights era. The rest of this slim book continues the same way. Short bits of poetry appear, litter a little lettered alliteration across the page, and give way to longer pieces. The book ends with an illustrated version of the trial of the thief of tarts, from Alice in Wonderland. These are the usual cast again, with amateur-theatre costumes and sets. This is a wonderful collection, nostalgic in many ways. It reminds me of the happy surpise as a child, discovering Pogo books on near-forgotten bookshelves. It also reminds me that the 1950s were as nervous a time as our own, or more, but somehow managed to channel its fears into civility and gentle humor. It's something that modern America has forgotten, and should try very hard to remember. //wiredweird, reviewing the 1954 Simon and Schuster edition
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pogo Stepmother Goose,
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I bought this book for the story titled: "The Town on the Edge of the End", based on "The Pied Piper of Hamlin". I find the story as a marvelous cautionary tale on political correctness.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Vintage Kelly,
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This review is from: The Pogo Stepmother Goose (Paperback)
Once, in an era long gone, when I was a tender lad of seven and becoming ever more proficient in the art of reading, my father innocently presented to me The Pogo Stepmother Goose and things have never been quite the same since. My eyes first beheld "The gentle journey jars to stop, the drifting dream is done. The long gone goblins loom ahead,the deadly, that we thought were dead, stand waiting - every one." This is Kelly in the era of Joe McCarthy, of communists in closets and under beds, of suspicions and accusations and low theater being played out by poor actors in the United States Senate and beyond. For me, The Town at the Edge of the End pretty much sums up Kelly's take on the human condition as displayed by the body politic in the US circa 1954.
I still have my copy of this wonderful book, and I recently bought one for a friend. Find it. Read it. Savor it.
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