Shrek! Book & CD set
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005OI1660 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Fun read happywife Not what you would expect but enchanting. Like the literary elements and very fun to read aloud with the family.. Cyndi Kuhn said Awesome. Daughter loves it, even though it's nothing like her beloved movie serieslol. She must have read it twenty times now. Thank you.. Broon said 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
When they finally meet, the two break into heartfelt declarations of mutual admiration. From Publishers Weekly No doubt about it, Shrek is the ugliest guy in town. The implicit promise (or threat) of a sequel--perhaps detailing the exploits of the pair's offspring--is indeed delicious to contemplate. 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. Ages 3-up. ("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. 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 vulne