Customer Reviews

The Rocket Book (Peter Newell Children's Books)

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I read this book to my children when they were small in 1985. We had checked it out from the public library. I laughed so hard at not only the story, but the expressions on the apartment dwellers faces as the rocket continued to burst its' way up through their apartments on its' trip out the top of the building! I have been searching for my own copy ever since, and am excited to have found it at Amazon.com. It will be a welcome addition to my own library, and I will certainly be sharing it later with my three little grand-daughters. I'm already laughing in anticipation of its arrival in the mail! Debra S. Metzger, Bullhead City, Arizona

This is a fabulous book, I remember it from my childhood and my family still refers back to it to this day. There is just something so endearing about the concept and execution that is uniquely Newell. The illustrations are vintage and expressive. The text hilarious. Only a curmudgeon wouldn't like this book. I'm glad to see it available again.

This book was a really fun read aloud book. Written in an old form of English and for a picture book was fairly long. The pictures were very funny.

My wife had a copy of the original book and shared it with our children. We bought this edition for a grandson and were very, very disappointed. The lack of the hole through each page--a signature characteristic of the original edition--was not nearly as bad as the faulty printing/page assembly which resulted in the illustrations being out of sync with the verse.
Don't waste your money on the Dodo Press paperback version.