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

~ (Author) "Tom Potts was fooling with a gun (Such follies should not be), When-bang!..." (more)

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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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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; 1st edition (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804814988
• ISBN-13: 978-0804814980
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #802,980 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

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

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunnng, August 25, 2006

By	Wayne A. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Frankly ALL the Newell books, like The Slant Book, should be published in near-original format by some hyper-sharp publishing house. The original publisher took great care to be sure the book functioned perfectly as an object, the registration is flawless, which isn't the case here. This is brilliant stuff and yet more evidence that our ancient ancestors of about 100 years ago may have been a little sharper than us in a lot of ways.

For now this sloppy so-so edition will have to do, but in so many quality ways it really isn't even close to what was regular kid book standards back then (honestly, few kids books nowadays match what I'm finding from back then--illustration is getting just awful for starters). Five stars for Newell who was only a recent discovery and a happy one.