Awful Ogre's Awful Day
Paperback – Illustrated, July 26, 2005
HarperCollins · Paperback · July 26, 2005
Beloved children's poet Jack Prelutsky and acclaimed illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky have created a tour de force picture book of epic proportions and infinite appeal!
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- Who it’s for
- A dreadful morning turns into a lively picture-book romp, with an ogre at its gleeful center.
- Themes
- Ogre antics, Stormy-day adventure
- Genres
- Poetry, Monsters, Funny Stories
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Beloved children's poet Jack Prelutsky and acclaimed illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky have created a tour de force picture book of epic proportions and infinite appeal! It's pouring. The wind is blowing down trees. Awful Ogre's rattlesnake wakes him. He tickles his piranha, scatters his rats, and disengages his leeches. Another wonderful day is about to begin. Awful Ogre, huge, hungry, horrible—and totally lovable, will steal the heart of every reader.
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Larger than life—larger, in fact, than all other ogres, Awful Ogre packs into one day enough excitement, imagination, emotion, and sheer ebullience to last most of us a lifetime. New York Public Library's “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing,” a School Library Journal Best Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book
Ogre-Sized Mischief
A dreadful morning turns into a lively picture-book romp, with an ogre at its gleeful center.
Come here for
- Comic chaos involving rattlesnakes, piranhas, rats, and leeches
- A lovable ogre with a taste for the outrageous
Expect
- Windblown mayhem and exuberant energy
- Larger-than-life fun in picture-book form
Where it sits
| Monsters | 83% |
|---|---|
| Poetry | 43% |
| Funny Stories | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Baby Animals
- Boys & Men
- Fairy Tale Collections
- Girls & Young Women
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- Halloween Stories
- Funny Stories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Short Stories
- Authors
- Jack Prelutsky
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- July 26, 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Ogre antics · Stormy-day adventure
- Reading lane
- Baby Animals