The Humpherys Family

The Wonderful O
Record Added: 4/14/2011
Illustrator Marc Simont
Topic Fantasy
Publisher Publisher, Misc
ISBN 1556111894   Year 1990
Age 4-8   Pages 80
Description Blue printed dustjacket
  
For children who can spell well, is James Thurber's 1957 story The Wonderful O, about a tyrannical pirate who bans everything on an island that contains the letter O - because his mother was once stuck in a porthole, with tragic consequences.

Full of word lists and wordplay, with charming illustrations by Marc Simont, it is a verbally ambitious little classic for logophiles. Or, as the pirate would have it, lgphiles.
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