book cover of The Gashlycrumb Tinies
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies

(1963)
(A book in the Vinegar Works series)
A Picture Book by

 
 
"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh..." The rhyming couplets of this grim abecedarian are familiar, of course, to devotees of macabre humor, but the darkly crosshatched drawings are (as Poe put it) "the soul of the plot."


Genre: Fantasy

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