based on the poem by Edward Lear
illustrated by Hilary Knight 1983
While I love Jan Brett's version of Edward Lear's most wonderful poem, Hilary Knight's illustrations will make you swoon. He tells the poem twice through a jovial character who lives in an amazing house with his pet monkey, Arabella. We have to linger on every page to take it all in. Two children, Otto and Polly have wandered in and as the poem progresses, they gradually morph into the titular characters. Knight is at his fanciful best!
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