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40 pp.
| Hyperion |
October, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4231-1671-4$16.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Kevin Cornell.
Instead of fixing his kingdom's roads and playgrounds, vain and clueless King Duncan keeps presenting his people with cheesy art and banners bearing his self-satisfied likeness, upon which his royal subjects finally paint mustaches in retaliation. The plot escalates deliciously from there--and then fizzles out in an anticlimactic denouement. The caricaturish illustrations recall Mad magazine at its best.