Shrek! (Book & CD Set) (MacMillan Young Listeners Audiobook)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1427208271 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
If his hideous appearance does not immediately fell them, the smoke belching from his ears and his "putrid blue flame" sends even the mighty--including "a whopper of a dragon"--packing. Everywhere he goes, people and animals flee. . Ages 3-up. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Yet Shrek is inordinately proud of his green knobby head and loathsome figure, and he roams the countryside having the kind of fun that only tormenting the vulnerable can provide. From Publishers Weekly No doubt about it, Shrek is the ugliest guy in town. ("Your horny warts, your rosy wens, / Like slimy bogs and fusty fens, / Thrill me.") Of course, they "got hitched as soon as possible." Steig's epigrammatic genius is given full rein in this engrossing and satisfying tale. Hearing a witch
happywife said Fun read. Not what you would expect but enchanting. Like the literary elements and very fun to read aloud with the family.. "Awesome" according to Cyndi Kuhn. Daughter loves it, even though it's nothing like her beloved movie serieslol. She must have read it twenty times now. Thank you.. A must buy and read, especially for teachers. A must buy and read, especially for teachers. Most kids know the movies, but not the origins of the ogre.
Ordinary, that is, if a foul and hideous being who ends up marrying the most stunningly ugly princess on the planet is what you consider ordinary.. Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world