The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Glaser, Shirley

If Apples Had Teeth

32 pp. | Enchanted Lion | August, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-226-8 $16.95
Reissue (1960, Knopf)

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Milton Glaser. "If apples had teeth, they would bite back. If snakes were salted, they would be pretzels." So begins Shirley Glaser's gleefully absurdist "if/then" text, accompanied by iconic graphic designer Milton Glaser's imaginative, purposely silly illustrations in a retro color palette. The newly-back-in-print book is still fresh and entertaining--though perhaps not as provocative as when first published.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano