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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.
In The Rocket Book, you'll 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.
The upward progress of a rocket, lit in the basement by the janitor's son, causes some strange situations as it passes through twenty floors of apartments.
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Scott Smith
reviewed The Rocket Book on April 15, 2019
The Rocket Book
This rhyming picture book actually has better rhythm than a lot of the more modern ones I've read. It's too bad it's a wee bit dated (although, for being over a hundred years old, it's not as bad as it could've been).
A brat lights a rocket in the basement of an apartment building, and then the reader is treated to a short poem about each of the suites that the rocket crashes through. It's actually kind of amusing... although it's amazing nobody was killed; that was one powerful rocket to go through all those floors!
The illustrations are quite nice, too. It's fun to see what's going on in all those apartments as the rocket makes its quick visit.
The ending is a little abrupt, but suitably comical, given what came before. I don't know if I'd read this to an impressionable young child (there's a little too much fainting and swooning among the women going on for my taste), but it might be fun for older children to see what picture books were like in the early part of the 20th century.
Quotable moment:
While Carrie Cook sat with a book
The phonograph played sweetly.
Then came the rocket and it smashed
That instrument completely.
Fair Carrie promptly turned her head,
Attracted by the roar.
"Dear me, I never heard," she said,
"That record played before!"
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