Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes - Hardcover

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582349509 ISBN 13: 9781582349503

Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Books, 2004

Synopsis

In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, bestselling author Margaret Atwood offers a delightfully ridiculous tale about the virtues of resisting restrictions. With tongue-twisting phrases heavily peppered with words beginning with R, the story follows Ramsay as he travels with his friend Ralph, the red-nosed rat, from his home full of revolting relatives to a field of roaring radishes. There he meets a girl named Rillah, who needs a bit of adventure herself. Atwood's rollicking text is accompanied by devilish and Dušan Petricic's insightful illustrations.

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Review:

"Margaret Atwood cleverly spins an engaging yarn This romping exercise in clever, tongue-twisting wordplay is a lot of fun, and the illustrations by Dusan Petricic are a riot" Orlando Sentinel, September 2004 "In lesser hands such an alliteration might prove redundant, but Atwood's prose is both amusing and enlightening in its use of rich vocabulary, with phrases such as "rumpled rucksack," "raggedy ravens" and "rancid remnants of reeking rhinoceros." Kirkus Reviews Aug 2004

About the Author:

Margaret Atwood is best known as the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including her latest novel, Oryx and Crake. Her previous novel, The Blind Assassin, won the Booker Prize. She has written four other children's books: Anna's Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse), Up in the Tree, For the Birds, and Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. She lives in Toronto.

Dušan Petricic is the award-winning illustrator of more than twenty books for children. A former professor of illustration and book design, Petricic's work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582349509
• ISBN 13: 9781582349503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Petricic Dusan