The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Or the Hithering Thithering Djinn

by Donald Barthelme

Book Overview

Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585678287
• ISBN13: 9781585678280
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fun and obscure

This was a very fun children's book that left plenty of room for imagination. I'm a bit "old" for children's books at nearly 30 but I appreciate literature in virtually all forms; so I maintain this book is an imaginative joy.