The One and Only Shrek!: Plus 5 Other Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1427201528 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2004, she was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She recently appeared in the films Julie & Julia, The Devil Wears Prada, Doubt, Mamma Mia! and It's Complicated. He published his first children's book, ROLAND THE MINSTREL PIG, in 1968, and received the Caldecott Medal for SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE in 1970. She holds the record for th
What did you expect? But what great material they had to work with.” Malcolm Jones, Newsweek“Since one of the great pleasures of Steig's books is the language he uses, it's a particular delight to have the recording of "The One and Only Shrek! Plus Five Other Stories" read by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. You can really hear that the brilliance of "Shrek" lies in the language Steig uses rather than in the slender story. He brilliantly interprets the stories and interjects energy and a light-hearted touch to all he r
Nice Collection and A Good Value Amazon Customer So, I purchased this book for my eight year old daughter. She finds that she's actually a bit old for the bookbut I'm certainly not! Maybe she'll come back to it again some day. We did enjoy reading the stories, especially Dr. DeSoto. Surprisingly, Shrek, which I hadn't read before, was the least interesting of the collection. "Charming Stories in Print or on CD" according to Franz Metcalf. I've never read a William Steig book I didn't like. This very large and thick book collects six lovely stories and represents a fantastic bargain in children's books.Note: If you're looking into the audio version, with Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, it is marvelous. We have both the book and the CD and we love them. As I say. Good Stories! Kindle Customer I bought this book for my three grandchildren, girls, who like the Shrek movies. I didn't know about the book until recently, so I bought it so the girls could see the correlation between the book and the movies. There is just one short story about Shrek that makes him less loveable than the movie does, but it's still a good
To mark the 100th birthday of William Steig and in anticipation of the next blockbuster movie Shrek the Third, Macmillan Audio presents The One and Only Shrek! the must-have collection of Steig classics featuring everyone's favorite ogre, read by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci.