The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Stevens, Janet , Crummel, Susan Stevens

And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon

48 pp. | Harcourt | May, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202298-8 $$17.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Janet Stevens. This postmodern version of a classic nursery favorite pays homage to the past yet acknowledges contemporary sensibilities in a piquant combination of sprightly text and large, impeccably drawn illustrations. Dish and Spoon disappear one night, and the efforts of Cat, Dog, and Cow to locate the missing pair is the organizing theme of an inventive, amusing farce.

Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2001