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"And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon" by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel

"Cinderella Skeleton" by Robert D. San Souci

"Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"

Summary: A new twist on the original nursery rhyme. Dish and Spoon runaway and don't come back and the other characters have to find them.

My Impressions:
I thought this was a funny twist on the nursery rhyme. It made me laugh and I loved all the illustrations. Everyday things had faces and could talk and its just an all around fun book to read.

Reviews:

One heck of a winner, June 5, 2001

By	Kim M Mangelsdorf (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (Hardcover)

I recently bought this book for my child and I can't decide who wants to read it more. He is three and says, "It's cool!" and I personally can't get enough of it. The jokes neatly planted in there and the wonderful illustrations makes this book a winner. It is one to buy for your kids and to save for the grandkids even. If you only have a bit of money to spend on a book, choose this one! - From Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Dish-Ran-Away-Spoon/product-reviews/0152022988/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Review by Michael Sims: We all know the story. It ends with the Dish running away with the Spoon, and usually they return so the rhyme can be read again. Unfortunately, one day Dish and Spoon don't return. They are nowhere to be found. Cat explains the problem to the skeptical Dog: "It's the way our rhyme goes. I fiddle, she jumps, you laugh, they run . . . Without Dish and Spoon, there's no rhyme. No more diddle diddle. It's over." Both Cow and Dog suggest alternative endings to the rhyme, but Cat insists that they stop fiddling around. Shameless puns abound in this book, both in the text and in the revised and extended rhyme that accompanies it.

On their quest the animals encounter all sorts of figures from Mother Goose. Fork recognizes the Spoon because they were originally from the same place setting. To help, Fork draws a map, which includes everything from the Three Bears' house to Little Bo Peep's pasture. The legend at the bottom explains the unit of measure: a crooked mile. Spider complains about Miss Muffet's aloofness. Wolf wears bunny slippers, and hanging on his coat tree in the foyer is a button-up sheep suit. In one house bobtailed blind mice lurk in the corners. The author and illustrator, who are sisters, must have enjoyed creating this book.

Let's make the bottom line of this review explicit: Children will love this book, but no more than the adults who read it to them.

http://www.bookpage.com/0106bp/children/dish_ran_away.html

Use in School: This book is just a fun book to be used in school maybe during storytime.

Crummel, Susan Stevens & Stevens, Janet. (2001). "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon". New York, NY :Harcourt Inc.

"Cinderella Skeleton"

Summary: This is a rendition of Cinderella the only difference is that she is a skeleton and its all based around Halloween.

My impressions: I thought this book was almost scary. I had never seen a Cinderella like this. It was a very interesting read. A lot of it was the same outline story of Cinderella just changed for it to be a skeleton or as they call it in the story a ghoul.

Reviews:

Now in paperback--the tale of Cinderella is told with a twist, presented withskeletons in the main roles. Hysterically funny."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starredreview). Full color.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780152020033-0

"Share this macabre rib tickler with Stinky Cheese fans." -- Booklist
http://www.rsansouci.com/pages/books/cskel.htm

Uses for School:
Use this at Halloween. Or do a whole story-telling series on different Cinderella stories and have this one in the mix and see how the Children react to it.

San Souci, Robert D. (2000). "Cinderella skeleton". Hong Kong: Harcourt.