Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?
Title | Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? PDF eBook |
Author | David Levinthal |
Publisher | Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | 41 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0375987703 |
Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora. When Snow White doesn't make it to the beauty pageant, Officer Binky is the first to find the apple core lying by her bed. When an awful giant mysteriously crashes to the ground, upsetting the whole town, Binky discovers exactly who is responsible. Author David Levinthal and illustrator John Nickle retell these classic stories in the style of a 1940s noir detective novel—for kids!
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?
Title | Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? PDF eBook |
Author | David Levinthal |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0375841954 |
Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora. When Snow White doesn't make it to the beauty pageant, Officer Binky is the first to find the apple core lying by her bed. When an awful giant mysteriously crashes to the ground, upsetting the whole town, Binky discovers exactly who is responsible. Author David Levinthal and illustrator John Nickle retell these classic stories in the style of a 1940s noir detective novel—for kids!
What Really Happened to Humpty?
Title | What Really Happened to Humpty? PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanie Franz Ransom |
Publisher | Triangle Interactive, Inc. |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-03-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1684446627 |
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: A scrambled mess . . . Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or--as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks--was he pushed? This case isn't all it's cracked up to be. Suspects are plenty (as are the puns) in this scrambled story of nursery rhyme noir. Was it Little Miss Muffet? There's something not right about her tuffet. Or could it have been Chicken Little, who's always been a little cagey? Or was it the Big Bad Wolf, who's got a rap sheet as long as a moonless night? Joe's on the beat and determined to find the truth. Readers of all ages will delight in the word play and hilarious illustrations in this mystery of what really happened to Humpty Dumpty on that fateful day.
Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed
Title | Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Blatte |
Publisher | IPG |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2009-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0982433212 |
On a manic ride from the mixing boards of hip-hop recording studios to mansions in the Hamptons and the projects of the urban ghetto, Detective Black Sallie Blue Eyes ventures behind-the-scenes of the record business in search of a street-side assassin. Casting a widely satirical net on all spectra and species of the Manhattan social scene—from tweaking downtown hipsters, wrestling fetishists, and rapper wannabes to real estate moguls and hip-hop impresarios—this satirical urban noir novel offers intrigue, insight, and an innovative brand of humor.
Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed
Title | Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Lord |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2008-11-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0595919553 |
What would you do if you suspect your best friend, who happens to be a giant egg, was killed but everyone else thinks it was an accident? Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed, a collection of twenty-two short fairy tale-like stories, tackles that question and many more. In this collection's title story, Chicken Little is certain his friend did not fall from the ledge, and he intends to prove there is a conspiracy. Will he discover the truth before it's too late? Filled with interesting and delightful characters, these short stories ask questions not raised before. Can a reverse vampire find true love? Can the World Nose Hair champion really make the world a better place? Is it ever wise to stick cheese noodles in your nose? Can one live their life squeezing other people's ears in peace? If a whale and a tiger had a fight who would win? Incorporating familiar characters in children's literature and folklore, Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed tells a series of tales with surprises to keep you guessing. Each story asks a different question, and each story offers a different, strange answer.
The Humpty Dumpty Book
Title | The Humpty Dumpty Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Children's poetry |
ISBN | 9780307039439 |
A selection of eighteen well-known nursery rhymes.
The Big Over Easy
Title | The Big Over Easy PDF eBook |
Author | Jasper Fforde |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2006-07-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101158301 |
Enter the world of the Nursery Crime Division in this novel from Jasper Fforde, the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play. "[Forde] knows a thing or two about leaping into new worlds. . . . It's hard not to see what all the enthusiasm is about." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "A wonderfully readable riot." -The Wall Street Journal