The adventures of the dish and the spoon

Summary: Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle" become vaudeville stars before turning to a life of crime. Mini Grey's spin on the nursery rhyme classic "Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle" is a love story of sorts that starts when "the dish ran away with the spoon." In the midst of the Great Depression, Dish and Spoon become rich and famous vaudeville stars--until their taste for the high life puts them in debt to a gang of sharp and shady characters (depicted as evil knives). The cinematic presentation--with a touch of Bonnie and Clyde, a dash of "The Perils of Pauline"--proves that crime doesn't pay and love conquers all. A visual treat with new details to discover again and again, here is absurd good fun for the whole family.

Record details

ISBN: 9780375836916 (trade)
ISBN: 9780375936913 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 0375836918 (trade)
ISBN: 0375936912 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 9780553509045 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	When the cow jumped over the moon, the dish ran away with the spoon to seek fame and fortune in 20th century America. This is the never-before-told story of their exciting adventures out in the big world.Unpaged : col. ill.
Awards Note:	Kate Greenaway Medal, 2007.