Two Slapstick Biographies: Once Upon a Time! A Story of the Brothers Grimm & Quick, Annie, Give Me a Catchy Line

Review ONCE UPON A TIME! A Story of the Brother's Grimm "The only biography for the Grimm's prime-time audience...chocolate-colored cartoons add slapstick humor to the text." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksQUICK, ANNIE, GIVE ME A CATCHY LINE! A Story of Samuel F. B. Morse. "Brisk cartoons punctuate the text's droll tone with visual jokes and balloon-captioned asides." -- Booklist Product Description A special two-books-in-one reprint edition in paperback of two hardcover books from the popular humorous biography series by Robert Quackenbush that were formerly published by Simon & Schuster. The first book in this delightful combination is "Once Upon a Time! A Story of the Brothers Grimm." The second book is "Quick, Annie, Give Me a Catch Line! A Story of Samuel F. B. Morse." Robert Quackenbush's wit and humor shines in this hilarious biography duo. From the Brothers Grimm wandering across Germany bartering food, songs, and trinkets in exchange for folk tales and fairy stories to Samuel f. B. Morse wanting to be an artist, not the inventor of the telegraph, you'll find uncommonly funny facts about these three famous people in this delicious volume. Publishing specifics: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2 ", full color cover, brown and white interior with illustrations on every page, ages 8-up, and grades 3-up. About the Author Robert Quackenbush has been delighting young readers with his humor in more than 170 books that he has written and illustrated. In the fiction area, he has created such beloved characters as Henry the Duck, Miss Mallard, Detective Mole and Sally Gopher. In the non-fiction area, his many humorous biographies have explored the lives of famous people from writers to inventors to presidents. He is the three-time winner of the American Flag Institute Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature and winner of an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award for best juveile mystery. In April 1998, at the United Nations Headquarters, he received a Gradiva Award for "Batbaby", voted best children's book of 1997 by theNnational and World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP/WAAP). Born in California and raised in Arizona, he graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in California. He now resides in New York with his wife, Margery, and his son, Piet, who has been the inspiration for many of his stories. Read more about Rober Quackenbush in Amazon.com's "Author Interviews".