Look-Alikes - Hardcover

Drescher, Henrik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688058175 ISBN 13: 9780688058173

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1988

Synopsis

Rudy and his pet monkey Buster discover toy look-alikes of themselves that run off and have adventures of their own.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4Rudy and his monkey Buster "live on an island on a small green plan et in the middle of space." In their se cret treehouse are two tiny "dolls" that look exactly like them. The look-alikes go into their identical secret treehouse, and while Rudy and Buster watch through a tiny window, the look-alikes have a series of adventures with a fish- bird, a two-faced monster with foun tain-pen feet and other strange crea tures. The look-alikes return, Rudy and Buster put them back in the "warm and cozy" toy chest and return home to their parents. Drescher's scrawly full- color illustrations, with many frenetic scribbles within and without the bor ders, are filled with activity. The chang ing perspectives and busyness of the pictures, the Escher-esque stairway, the splashes and doodles and stick fig ures create a sensation of chaos and confusion. The text is spare, descrip tive and unremarkable; one sentence or phrase per large page. The book seems to be trying for a combination of hu mor, scariness and novelty, but the ef fect is merely bizarre. If the point is that we are all small creatures being watched and manipulated by larger ones as we tumble through life battered by absurdity, it will be lost on the picture book audience.Susan Pa tron, Los Angeles Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0688058175
• ISBN 13: 9780688058173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 33