The Rocket Book begins when the son of a building superintendent sets a match to a rocket he discovered in the basement. Suddenly, the rocket blasts its way up through apartment after apartment in a high-rise, disrupting and transforming the humdrum goings-on of twenty families till it is finally stopped cold by something in the attic. An elliptical hole is punched in each of the book’s pages and illustrations to signify where the rocket passed through every apartment! As in all of Newell’s books, the verse on the verso-page provides commentary on the recto-page illustration. This book and Newell’s The Slant Book pioneered the “special format” children’s literature of today, such as pop-up books or cutout books like Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Newell’s books from 80 years ago have been reprinted, since Newell has undergone a resurgence in popularity much as Dr. Seuss’s books did during the 1980s.
The Rocket Book -
Peter Newell
Harper & Brothers - United States
1912
48 páginas
1h 36m
ISBN-10: 0804805059
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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell
Peter Newell, artista norte-americano, criou diversos livros para crianças, como The Slant Book (O Livro Inclinado) ou The Rocket Book (O Livro do Foguete). Além disso ilustrou vários livros de autores importantes, por exemplo de Mark Twain, e foi também autor dos quadrinhos The Naps of Polly Sleppyhead, publicada na imprensa entre 1905 e 1906. Os seus trabalhos foram publicados em diversos livros, jornais e revistas, incluindo a New York Graphic, a Scribner’s, a Saturday Evening Poste a Harper’s Bazaar. Newell ficou conhecido pelo humor sutil, os jogos visuais e as rimas e trocadilhos cômicos.
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Illinois, Estados Unidos