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The Worst Breakfast

The Worst Breakfast

by China MiƩville and Zak Smith
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/10/2016

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A gorgeous and hilarious picture book about the most unusual breakfast two sisters ever ate.

Two sisters sit down one morning and begin describing all of the really gross things that were in the worst breakfast they ever had, until all they can picture is a table piled sky-high with the weirdest, yuckiest, slimiest, slickest, stinkiest breakfast possible. And then they have the best breakfast ever . . . almost.

"Miéville and Smith's dialogue is fantastic: witty, smart, with great rhythm that doesn't sacrifice artful turns of phrase to reach for an internal rhyme...A brilliant, original, infinitely rereadable book that can sit alongside Sendak and Dahl." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred review

"Miéville lets it rip in this stomping, howling rant about a bad meal of legendary proportions . . . Punk artist Smith’s neatly framed dialogue boxes and crisp black contours have a buttoned-up look, but no: tentacles wave from inside bowls, monsters smile amid mountains of vile sausages, and a blue alien juggles cherry tomatoes. As the pages turn, the towers of bad food grow ever loftier. In the end, a simple tea strainer saves the sisters from another terrible meal. This one’s for families enamored of new words, exotic foods, and strong opinions." - Publisher's Weekly

ISBN:
9781617754869
9781617754869
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-10-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
W. W.\Norton#& Company, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
32
Dimensions (mm):
293x204mm
Weight:
0.41kg
China MiƩville

China Mieville is the author of numerous books, including The City & The City, Embassytown, Railsea, and Perdido Street Station.

His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.

Zak Smith

Zak Smith is an artist who first came to prominence with his mammoth work Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow.

Smith's paintings and drawings are held in major public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

He lives and works in Los Angeles and tries to answer all of his mail.

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