Drop Dead - Hardcover

Cole, Babette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224045512 ISBN 13: 9780224045513

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Questioned by their grandchildren as to why they are bald and wrinkly, Gran and Grandad reveal their lives have been more colourful and bizarre that anyone can imagine. Despite the hazards they have survived, they expect to drop dead like everyone else, but then they might be recycled as anything.

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Review:

The ageing process and death are difficult subjects for children to deal with. However, as she has with several other books, Babette Cole manages to overcome taboos and give the whole ageing process her typically zany treatment. From learning to dribble, burping and potty training, through the trials and tribulations of the teenage years and first love, to marriage and parenthood, the 80-year-old bald, wrinkly narrators take the reader through the complete story of their life. Babette Cole combines spare text with wickedly funny illustrations to create a unique approach to the process of growing old. This is a perfect book for children and grandparents to share and makes a serious issue accessible to all ages. --Philippa Reece

From the Inside Flap:

, whose work has been hailed by Parents magazine as "outrageously zany," turns ageism on its ear in this hilariously fresh look at the human life cycle. Two thoroughly modern grandparents tell their life stories to their skeptical grandchildren, and along the way debunk the myth that kids have a monopoly on fun and living dangerously. From childhood on through teenage angst and college dares, to young love and parenthood, these spunky octogenarians have seen and done it all. And they're not afraid of what the future holds. Blithely suggesting the possibility of reincarnation, they joke "we might be recycled as anything at all!" Cole combines a spare text with wickedly funny illustrations to create an utterly novel approach to the process of growing up and growing old. An ideal book for kids and grandparents to share. Drop dead, indeed!

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0224045512
• ISBN 13: 9780224045513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40