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The Runaway Dinner
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published by Candlewick (2006-08-08)
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Amazon Description
Talk about fast food! A hilarious, high-speed tale from the inimitable Allan Ahlberg — catch it if you can!What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory sausage named Melvin, it's a plight that can only result in a breathless escape — and what a chase it is! Off speeds the sturdy sausage — leading fork, knife, and plate, chair and table, a handful of fries with various French names, and three fat little peas — out the door, down the street, and around the park, with poor Banjo taking up the rear. Will the famished boy ever catch them? And what (gulp) happens to Melvin if he does? Allan Ahlberg is in his element with this fast and funny tale, while Bruce Ingman's kid-friendly illustrations add visual comedy to the chase.
One Potato Review
Jailbreak. A sausage named Melvin gets up in the middle of dinner and runs away, joined shortly by a knife, a fork, three peas named Peter, Percival and Paul, and french fries (among them Fifi and Francois) who finally escape in a boat. Percival and Paul end up getting devoured by different herbivores in the park, but Peter - well, you’ll have to see, and as for the fate of the instigator, Melvin, there is also a great deal of suspense about his final reckoning. This isn’t quite as traumatic as it sounds, but it is just as funny. The author and illustrator don’t seem to know exactly where they’re going when they set out, which is as it should be here. Breathless and cheerful, no lessons implied.
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