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Shrunken Treasures
Shrunken Treasures: Literary Classics, Short, Sweet, and Silly | Scott Nash
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Nine weighty literary classics are transformed into delectable morsels with Scott Nashs playful versification and whimsical illustration. Cant stomach all of Frankenstein? Lacking the strength to read The Odyssey? Dont have 1,001 nights to get through Scheherazades ordeal? Never fear, Shrunken Treasures are here! Nine of the worlds best-known stories and books have been reduced, like slowly simmered cherries, to tart and tasty mouthfuls. Lighthearted verse turns Moby-Dick into a simple nursery song. Outrageous color makes even gloomy Hamlet seem like fun. Riotous images transform Jane Eyres ordeal into a whirlwind adventure. The Metamorphosis, Remembrance of Things Past, Don Quixote, and others have all been delivered from dense duty to delightful ditty in Scott Nashs collection of hallowed classics, featuring notes about the original texts at the end.
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Apparently the way to get me intrigued about weighty classic volumes is to make them into nursery rhymes and poems with modified endings, then include summaries of the picture book author's reflections on the actual works in the back of the book. It worked!

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Having kids that are all old enough for chapter books now, I don‘t spend much time with picture books. But working at a library has reintroduced me to them. This book, Shrunken Treasures, tells classics in verse, some set to popular songs like “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or “Three Blind Mice.” I absolutely adore books like this and I‘m glad I get the chance to read them again without my kids.

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