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Singer, Marilyn

Miss Muffet, or What Came After

40 pp. | Clarion | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-90566-2 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Litchfield. Singer elaborates on the nursery rhyme, concocting a theatrical piece--including script, stage directions, chorus lyrics, satire, subplots, patter songs, and stock characters--all illustrated in an energetically lurid mixed-media style. There are moments of wit (Miss Muffet and Bo-Peep are virtuoso fiddlers) and some dandy outlandish rhymes, but what might work on the stage is chaotic on the page, lacking focus and narrative logic.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis

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