Field Beyond The Outfield - Softcover

Teague, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439812151 ISBN 13: 9780439812153

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

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Ludlow Grebe has an overactive imagination: he's sure there are monsters in the closet and sharks in the rainwater.Then Ludlow's parents decide to sign him up with a local Little League team, the Oswald City Hornets. Ludlow's told to play "far, far back," so far back, in fact, that he ends up in ANOTHER field where monsters are in the crowd and insects are on the field. Ludlow even pinch-hits a home run for the beetle baseballers! With his wildly imaginative story and delightfully bizarre illustrations, Mark Teague hits this hilarious baseball tale right out of the park.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Teague developed his writing and painting talents without formal training but with a healthy dose of imagination. Each of Teague's books starts as "notebooks full of sketches and scribbles, strange little drawings, and phrases that seem mostly cryptic that suddenly come together," he explains. His books tackle everything from first graders coping with life on Mars to Shakespearean characters coping with life on earth. Mischievous dinosaurs, witty dogs, nightmare haircuts, messy rooms, closet monsters - all find their way into Teague's wildly inventive books. Teague has also collaborated with many critically acclaimed authors, including Jane Yolen, Audrey Wood, and Cynthia Rylant. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and two daughters. For more information about Mark Teague, visit scholastic.com/tradebooks

From Kirkus Reviews:

Ludlow Grebe's daydreams become too much for his parents, who sign him up for ``something real'': Little League. He ends up so far back in the outfield that he becomes a participant in the next field's game--in which all the players have six limbs and the stands are filled with monsters. In that game, he hits a home run. The lunatic realism in Teague's acrylics recalls that of William Joyce: solid, clearly limned shapes, small figures in spacious scenes, a weird sense that there's nothing unusual about a team of giant, grinning green beetles. The understatement of the brief, simply phrased text magnifies the humor. Another eye- roller from the author of Moog-Moog, Space Barber (1990). (Picture book. 6-8) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0439812151
• ISBN 13: 9780439812153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40