There’s a bump on the front porch, then a doorknob turning…and
then a wildly funny surprise.
The illustrations catch every nuance between these critters
and their comical fantasy lives, first introduced in 1997 in Thorndike
and Nelson.
Ages 3-6 and anyone who owns a cell phone (1998)
Order: Hardcover
Thorndike and Nelson : A Monster Story
Ages 3-6 (1997)
Order: Hardcover
Jean Jackson lives in Seattle, Washington.
Her first picture book was Thorndike and Nelson, and her third is Mrs.
Piccolo's East Chair (to be published in 1999)
Vera Rosenberry has illustrated many fine books, among
them Together and The Outside Inn by George Ella Lyon. She lives
in Salt Lake City and is at work illustrating two of her own stories.
Big Lips and Hairy Arms
by Jean Jackson
Brrrrrrrrrr-a-ling-ling! Thorndike answers his
cell phone and barely makes out the raspy voice saying, "I have big lips
and hairy arms, and I’m only five blocks away." Neither he nor his
friend Nelson, over for an evening of caterpillar crisps and tentacle stew,
feel too frightened. At first. But the caller keeps calling,
and the safe five-block distance becomes three, then one, then the
scary voice is "right across the street." And the two monsters are
shrieking with self-induced panic.
Hilarious (and truth to it) how childhood fights begin.
Meet Thorndike and Nelson for the first time. They are really characters.