Illustration by Tony Ross, from Cottonball Colin, written by Jeanne Willis
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By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 3/4/2008
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 2/19/2008
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 5/29/2007
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By: Julie Fortenberry,
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By: Just One More Book!!,
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Author: Tony Ross (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Tony Ross
Published: 2004 Andersen Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1842703382 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Thumps, chomps, head butts and the might of the spunky youngest make this refreshingly ridiculous version of the original Grimm’s tale a shockingly fun read.
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You can read a version of the original Grimm’s fairy tale here.
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 5/29/2007
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Author: Ian Whybrow (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Tony Ross (on JOMB)
Published: 2001 Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 1575055503 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Full of snappy wit and hilariously scrawled illustrations, these clever and sweetly cheeky adventures crack us up not only as we read them but again and again as we toss about their hilarious expressions in our daily life.
Other Little Wolf books which we have read and often rave about:
- Badness for Beginners
- Little Wolf’s Diary of Daring Deeds (Little Wolf)
- Little Wolf’s Handy Book of Poems (Little Wolf)
- Little Wolf’s Haunted Hall for Small Horrors (Little Wolf)
P.S. Little Wolf left us a comment about our conversation with Ian Whybrow interview here! Arooooo!
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2 Comments on Blinking, Blunking Great Laughs: Little Wolf’s Book of Badness (series), last added: 6/23/2007
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This book sounds like a scream! Can’t wait to get a copy of my own. I was struck by something you said about the violence in this book not being something you’d usually see in a North American title. I wonder if that’s a function of the “Disneyfication” of stories here. The need to make them all end happily ever after. For instance, Disney’s Little Mermaid ends far differently than the original tale in which Ariel turns into sea foam.
Though that can only be a part of the answer.
Hmmmm.
Andrea Beaty
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well… in addition to the wolf trying to get in and eat all the children and the abuse that the little goats heap on the dim-witted wolf, the book ends with the very prim and mild mannered beer drinking mom (I love that, I need to do a SwimmingInLiterarySoup.com episode singing the praises of beer-drinking moms in picture books!) slapping each of her kids.
Not your average 2000-and-something children’s book, but in the context of the millions of other books that we read our children, and in the context of the way we treat our children and the way we are raising them to treat others, it’s a completely hilarious and ridiculously fun read. Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!!
Andrea
JOMB wrote, “Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!!”
And that, I think, is a very good thing.
Meep! Meep!
Andrea B