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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated version of the simpleton's misadventures. Hidden in the story are characters from sixteen nursery rhymes. Conover embellishes the story of Simple Simon, who met a pieman going to the fair, with a festival of distractions. It is almost impossible to follow the rhyming story from beginning to end, as a caravan of animals-storybook characters-descends on the fair by foot, camel, and ship. Many small subplots are hatched, and readers...
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