Candlewick Press, 2011
HC, $16.99
40 pgs.
Rating: 4.5
Endpapers: Yellow with darker yellow crest/shield with a slightly darker "H"
Title Pages: Full page illustration (a castle atop rolling green hills)
"Long ago, when people spoke
with words like "thou" and "thee,"
there lived a king named Hugo
who was only three foot three.
And though this mini monarch
stood no higher than an elf,
his ego was enormous --
he thought highly of himself."
Rhyming a b c b
Alliteration
Rhythm
Great vocabulary
Favorite illustration: Tessa (a sorceress), after being bumped into the river, is grubby, shoeless (a dog is sticking out from under her haystack), she has a bedraggled frog on her head and a turtle on her rear....
Incredibly haughty King Hugo is poxed by a farm girl and his head grows and grows...and grows each time he brags.
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