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When They Are Up...

When They Are Up...

Thompson, Richard
Wakelin, Kirsti Anne
Spicer, Maggee

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General Juvenile FictionPoetry

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ISBN10: 1550417096
ISBN13: 9781550417098
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Published: May 28 2007
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.80 Depth: 7.57
Language: English
No one knows who originally penned this traditional English verse, whose French origins referred to Louis XIV. But Maggee Spicer and her husband, popular children's author and entertainer Richard Thompson, have turned the familiar nursery rhyme upside down in this charming version.

The Grand old Duke of York has many soldiers eager to do his bidding. And in this romping tale they dutifully go up, down-and neither-up-nor-down-as ordered. But although these soldiers have obviously been trained to march, they have little discipline and no sense of decorum. No matter where they happen to be on the hill, they might decide to stop for a game of chess or tag...or even catch armadillos in bags. Other times they cheat at card games, then they play fair... sometimes they even wrestle grizzly bears, or dress up in silly suits, or play basketball with gnomes. This is one army that everyone wants to join.

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