Publishers Weekly's Best
Children's Picture Books of 2008
The White Ravens 2009
Bank Street College of Education's
Best Children's Books of the Year
JACK JUST GOT A NEW TOY, and it’s full of surprises. Each time the box pops open, there’s a new and bigger surprise. Is it a silly toy, a scary toy...or something else entirely?
With a limited vocabulary and unlimited imagination, art spiegelman applies his out-of-the-box thinking to a book that has all the surprise and bounce of a Jack-in-the-box.
AGES 4+
GRADES K-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-9799238-3-8
LEXILE LEVEL: GN 100
GUIDED READING LEVEL: G
READING RECOVERY LEVEL 11-12
Art Spiegelman is best known for his masterful two volume Holocaust narrative Maus, which in 1992 won a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman rejected his parents' aspirations for him to become a dentist, and began to study cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age 16. He was the cofounder/editor of RAW, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics.
