Any ogre will tell you, "People are delicious". Children eaten for breakfast are especially good. Terrified parents were forced to hide their little ones every day--until the ogre met Zeralda. Though she was small, Zeralda possessed a weapon so potent it could even quell a ferocious ogre. Delightfully humorous...illustrated with the comic inventiveness typical of Mr. Ungerer"...--School Library Journal. Full-color.
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Any ogre will tell you, "People are delicious". Children eaten for breakfast are especially good. Terrified parents were forced to hide their little ones every day--until the ogre met Zeralda. Though she was small, Zeralda possessed a weapon so potent it could even quell a ferocious ogre. Delightfully humorous...illustrated with the comic inventiveness typical of Mr. Ungerer"...--School Library Journal. Full-color.
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Good in good jacket. First edition, 1967. Large quarto, cloth-backed pictorial boards in dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Good copy in Good dust jacket, age-toning to the outer pages, some soiling and discoloration to the covers, wear to the edges of the covers including loss, dust jacket with some soiling and age-toning, dust jacket with rubbing, creasing, and tearing to the edges including some loss (especially at the tips). Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Good. Illustrated by the author. No indication of printing. Binding is a bit loose, brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else good in illustrated boards. No dust jacket.
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Very Good + in very good- jacket. Large 8vo. Bound in illustrated boards and matching dust jacket. Full-color illustrations by Ungerer. Very Good+, previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper, rubbing and bumping to extremities, internally clean and bright, in Very Good-dust jacket with 1" tear to lower edge of front cover, several shorter tears and wear to extremities, age-toning overall. Attractive copy.
Ogres are scary--and hungry! Tomi Ungerer takes this premise and wittily turns it around--Zeralda tames the kid-eating ogre with her culinary talents and, like Beauty and the Beast, turns him into a fairly lovable husband and parent. This could easily be turned into a satiric movie!
MattKing
Apr 3, 2007
Old Fashioned Alsace
This is an old fashioned story in that it features an Ogre who eats little children. He's not the best looking chap either (see picture of book cover) but Zeralda tames him with her kindness and good cooking, finding his nicer side - so there's a moral but it's not schmaltzy. Apparently based on a folk tale from the Alsace French/German border this is what middle ages northern european story telling is all about: scarey monsters, women happy to keep men happy by cooking and a (probably) under age marriage. Refreshingly unsanitised. I saw it in French whilst on holiday and my childhood memories came flooding back. I had to import this English version (not available in UK). Superb!
