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Mary Had a Little Lamp

by Jack Lechner

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens (2008-04-01)

List Price: $15.95

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Amazon Description

Updating the classic rhyme with “appliance humor,” gives this book a hilarious twist and a great new take on the “beloved transitional object” story. Mary has a little lamp that she takes everywhere: to school, the movies, the circus, the zoo, even a wedding. One day Mary heads off to summer camp without her bendy-necked lamp and discovers that life without a lamp isn’t so bad! In fact, when Mary returns home, her little lamp stays on her shelf for good. Now what will she find instead?

One Potato Review

Yes, why a lamp? And, more importantly, how a lamp? Lechner and the geometrically brilliant Bob Staake seem to have set this challenge for themselves based on nothing more than one letter, and the result is effortlessly funny - the lamp taken sledding, down slides at the playground, out for Chinese - but its also finally true to the often mystifying value we attach to material keepsakes. Really, why not a lamp? “She loved its quiet company - it never picked a fight. She loved its neck, she loved its cord. And most of all its light.” When you think about all of the other stupid stuff we buy…. With a happy, snappy ending that does not betray the guiding subversiveness. 

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