Around the Clock
With Audio Recording
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
This wacky romp from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast includes entertaining antics for every hour, on the hour. Counting time has never been so fun!
From 12 to 1, Lynn eats baloney
With her imaginary friend, Tony.
From 1 to 2, in his fanciest pants,
Don is digging a hole to France.
Do you ever wonder what your friends, enemies, brothers, sisters, and children are doing in the hours when you’re not there? This kooky twenty-four-hour tour of a day in the life of twenty-three different children will reveal answers from the absurd…to the hilarious…to the absurdly hilarious!
Beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is at her finest in this picture book brimming with her trademark stamp of zany humor.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There are only so many hours in a day, but Chast rules them all as she checks in on 23 geeky kids who each put a highly idiosyncratic stamp on a single, 60-minute interval. Much of the behavior she chronicles hour by hour is transgressive or at least not on an adult agenda. "From 7 to 8, Billy's muse/ tells him to paint the room chartreuse," she writes, showing a young man enthusiastically spreading paint on every available surface in his bedroom. But an hour is also time enough to perform a good deed ("From 5 to 6, Steve is able/ to help his mother set the table") or to come closer to fulfilling one's dream ("From 11 to 12, though no one can see him/ David is planning a sock museum"). As in Chast's brilliant work for the New Yorker, anxiety and happiness are never far from one another in these pages the kid whose hour features a rendezvous with a frozen treat truck doesn't look too different from the kid whose hour is marred by toothpaste that tastes "icky." Ages 4 8.
