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Marshak, Samuel

The Absentminded Fellow

32 pp. | Farrar | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-30013-5 $$16.00
(2) K-3 Translated by Richard Pevear. Illustrated by Marc Rosenthal. Fifty years after its first publication in the Soviet Union by a popular Russian writer and publisher for children and now translated by a respected translator of Gogol and Dostoevsky, here is a nonsense verse about a character whose comically exaggerated behavior invokes the proverbial absent-minded professor. The silly events are much extended by retro, cartoon-style illustrations recalling Orphan Annie and the Katzenjammer Kids, among others.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

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