The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or the Hithering Tithering Djinn - Hardcover

Barthelme, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585678287 ISBN 13: 9781585678280

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. In his career, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.

From the Inside Flap:

From the brilliant mind of Donald Barthelme, the National Book Award-winning tale for children of all ages.One morning in 1887, Mathilda went out into the back yard and discovered that a mysterious Chinese house had planted itself there overnight. She had wanted a fire engine, but the mysterious Chinese house was intriguing too. From inside came strange sounds: growls, howls, whispering, trumpeting.Plucky Mathilda walks right in. She finds all sorts of peculiar things: a sulky captured pirate, a giant popcorn-popping machine, an elephant that falls downhill once a day—truly “every kind of flawless flourishy footlooseness.” Mathilda gets to see everything in every room, guided by the hithering thithering djinn, who even arranges to leave her a souvenir that is just about exactly what she wanted.Renowned author Donald Barthelme presents Mathilda’s escapade in a witty and whacky text with collage illustrations made entirely from nineteenth-century engravings. It’s a unique, fun, and ultimately wonderful book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1585678287
• ISBN 13: 9781585678280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32