In his kinetic interpretation of Carroll's famous verse, Myers ("Jazz") gives the poem a contemporary urban setting and a basketball theme. As the book begins, a girl looks over her shoulder while jumping rope with two others. A flip of the page shows what has distracted her: the dread Jabberwock, a towering, dark figure holding a basketball, flashing ominous-looking teeth (The jaws that bite) and displaying enormous,…
Author: Lewis Carroll · Original publisher: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion Books for Children (2007)
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