Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey
	List Price:   $16.95 Unit Price:   $13.56 You Save:   $3.39 (20%) ISBN-10:   0375836918 ISBN-13:   9780375836916 Publisher:   Random House [IN]; Knopf Books for Young Readers Category:   Poetry, Rhymes & Songs Pub. Date:   August 2006 Pages:   32 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   6 to 9 Grades:   1 to 4
Awards
2006  Nestl? Children's Book Prize  Nominee/Honoree  2007  American Library Association Notable Books for Children  Winner!  2007  Kate Greenaway Medal  Winner!  2007  Quill Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2006  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year  Winner!
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery rhyme 'The Cat and the Fiddle' become vaudeville stars before turning to a life of crime. Mini Grey's spin on the nursery rhyme classic 'Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle' is a love story of sorts that starts when 'the dish ran away with the spoon.' In the midst of the Great Depression, Dish and Spoon become rich and famous vaudeville stars - until their taste for the high life puts them in debt to a gang of sharp and shady characters (depicted as evil knives). The cinematic presentation - with a touch of Bonnie and Clyde, a dash of 'The Perils of Pauline' - proves that crime doesn't pay and love conquers all. A visual treat with new details to discover again and again, here is absurd good fun for the whole family. Grey's spin on the nursery rhyme classic is a love story that starts when 'the dish ran away with the spoon.' In the midst of the Great Depression, Dish and Spoon become rich and famous vaudeville stars--until their taste for the high life puts them in debt. Illustrations.