Dress Up and Let's Have a Party [Hardcover]

John and his friends come together for a party, using the everyday things around them to construct inventive costumes on the spot. Pots and pans, an empty soap box, your mothers clothesthese are all things you can wear to a dress-up party! Playing dress-up is a way to be a new self and to imagine for a moment that you are different from who you really are. It's a way to be extravagant or silly, a way to surprise yourself and have a great time!
Written by the prolific and beloved Remy Charlip,Dress Up and Lets Have a Partyis a clever, playful reminder that the potential for fun is always at hand. Originally published in the United States in 1956,Dress Up and Let's Have A Partywas his first book. Decked out in his mothers pots and pans while she bakes a cake, John is inspired to ask his friends to come to his party in costume  and we wait with him to see what theyll be wearing when, at the turn of the page, they come through the door. No dullards here: a carton on the street turns Hans into a special delivery package; a ball of string makes Vera a meatball covered with spaghetti. The final surprise comes when John carries in the cake, with the single word happy visible. In Charlip territory, nothing is all spelled out. The Horn BookSocial media promotion on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
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Creating a biographical booklet (with photographs) about Remy, to be distributed with advance copies and any catalogs sent to bookstores and contacts
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