A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Book.
Jack's new toy is full of surprises. Is it silly, scary . . . or something else entirely? In whatSchool Library Journalcalled a surefire hit, Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman applies his out-of-the-box thinking to a story that has all the energy of a Jack-in-the-box!
- A humorous children's book by famed cartoonist Art Spiegleman, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, A Survivor's Tale
- The perfect addition to Funny and Fantastic Tales classroom library collections for Grades K-2.
- Accompanying TOON into Reading CCSS-Aligned Lesson Plan and Activity Sheet (free download)
Jack just got a new toy. Is it a silly toy, a scary toy... or something else entirely?
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Book.
Jack's new toy is full of surprises. Is it silly, scary . . . or something else entirely? In whatSchool Library Journalcalled a surefire hit, Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman applies his out-of-the-box thinking to a story that has all the energy of a Jack-in-the-box!
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 he began to study cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age 16. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. He was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2005 and—the American equivalent—played himself on an episode of “The Simpsons” in 2008. He has published Meta Maus, a companion to The Complete Maus, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award. In 2011, Art Spiegelman won the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. His latest book, CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, anló&
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