This Is the House That Jack Built

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Author:

Taback, Simms

Illustrator:

Taback, Simms

ISBN:

978-0-399-23488-0

Publication Date:

Aug 2002

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Imprint:

Putnam Juvenile

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $15.99

Book Description:

Caldecott Award-winner Simms Taback infuses this favorite children's rhyme with his distinctive, creative flair and humor. His Jack builds a house like no other and fills it with cheeses from all nations, which of course attracts the rat that stirs up the cat. Taback takes the usual cast of characters in this classic cumulative rhyme and presents each in a funny new light that will keep readers laughing. His addition at the end neatly fits an appropriate character into Jack's...
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Book Details

Pages:	32
Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / Nursery Rhymes Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	8.86 x 11.3 x 0.31 Inches
Book Weight:	0.76 Pounds

Author Biography

Taback, Simms (Author)

Simms Taback was born on February 13, 1932 in New York City. Before serving two years in the Army, he graduated from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1953. He worked as an art director at CBS Records and The New York Times and as an advertising art director at William Douglas McAdams. He designed and illustrated the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in the 1970s.

During his lifetime, he was the illustrator and occasional author of about 50 children's books including There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, which won the Caldecott Medal in 2000, and Postcards from Camp. He died of pancreatic cancer on December 25, 2011 at the age of 79.

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