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Clever puns and elaborately detailed, surreal artwork illuminate a collection of comically grim verses that can’t help but tickle the funny bone.

Reader, if I had more time 
I’d say au revoir in rhyme, 
Sayonara, ciao in verse — 
But I have to catch a hearse. 

Peek inside Once Upon a Tomb and find twenty-two poems, each of which tells, in hilarious verse, the story of an untimely demise — from a school principal to a bully, a food critic to a cafeteria lady, an underwear salesman to a soccer player. Complemented by Simon Bartram’s deadpan illustrations, J. Patrick Lewis’s cryptic tour of headstones and epitaphs is silly, spooky — and far from grave.

Once Upon a Tomb A Collection of Gravely Humorous

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    A Hardback by J. Patrick Lewis, Simon Bartram

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      Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 11/07/2006
      ISBN13: 9780763618377, 978-0763618377
      ISBN10: 0763618373

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Clever puns and elaborately detailed, surreal artwork illuminate a collection of comically grim verses that can’t help but tickle the funny bone.

      Reader, if I had more time 
      I’d say au revoir in rhyme, 
      Sayonara, ciao in verse — 
      But I have to catch a hearse. 

      Peek inside Once Upon a Tomb and find twenty-two poems, each of which tells, in hilarious verse, the story of an untimely demise — from a school principal to a bully, a food critic to a cafeteria lady, an underwear salesman to a soccer player. Complemented by Simon Bartram’s deadpan illustrations, J. Patrick Lewis’s cryptic tour of headstones and epitaphs is silly, spooky — and far from grave.

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