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Clever puns and elaborately detailed, surreal artwork illuminate a collection of comically grim verses that can’t help but tickle the funny bone.
Reader, if I had more time
I’d say au revoir in rhyme,
Sayonara, ciao in verse —
But I have to catch a hearse.
Peek inside Once Upon a Tomb and find twenty-two poems, each of which tells, in hilarious verse, the story of an untimely demise — from a school principal to a bully, a food critic to a cafeteria lady, an underwear salesman to a soccer player. Complemented by Simon Bartram’s deadpan illustrations, J. Patrick Lewis’s cryptic tour of headstones and epitaphs is silly, spooky — and far from grave.
Reader, if I had more time
I’d say au revoir in rhyme,
Sayonara, ciao in verse —
But I have to catch a hearse.
Peek inside Once Upon a Tomb and find twenty-two poems, each of which tells, in hilarious verse, the story of an untimely demise — from a school principal to a bully, a food critic to a cafeteria lady, an underwear salesman to a soccer player. Complemented by Simon Bartram’s deadpan illustrations, J. Patrick Lewis’s cryptic tour of headstones and epitaphs is silly, spooky — and far from grave.
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J. Patrick Lewis has written many books for children, including The Last Resort, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti, which was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, and Arithme-tickle an Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz.
Simon Bartram's humorous acrylic paintings have appeared in several books for children, including Man on the Moon (A Day in the Life of Bob), and numerous magazines. He loves to paint but also enjoys writing and creating his own stories and poems.
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Simon Bartram's humorous acrylic paintings have appeared in several books for children, including Man on the Moon (A Day in the Life of Bob), and numerous magazines. He loves to paint but also enjoys writing and creating his own stories and poems.
Gr. 2-4. Proving himself to be anything but a grave man, Lewis offers 22 irreverent epitaphs and other mortuary verses, each of which is paired with a large, polished portrait or burial scene created in richly hued acrylics. Most of the sentiments are very short. "Underwear Salesman," for instance, runs but two lines ("Our grief / Was brief"); the "Fortune Teller" is even shorter ("Here lies"). Other entries allude to sad ends suffered by a schoolteacher (decapitated by a paper airplane), a dairy farmer ("Here is a lesson / for Larry LeGow: / NEVER SIT UNDER / A HEREFORD COW"), a food critic, a book editor, a cafeteria lady, a bully, and more. The last one celebrates a philosopher who finally "came to a conclusion." This rare look at the lighter side of death should elicit plenty of surprised giggles from young audiences. John Peters
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0763618373
- ISBN 13 9780763618377
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- Number of pages32
- IllustratorBartram Simon
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