From AudioFile
[Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with JACOB TWO-TWO AND THE DINOSAUR.]--The great Canadian author--best known for THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ and JOSHUA THEN AND NOW--penned three juvenile novels featuring a neglected 6-year-old who says everything twice. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has done a marvelous job producing full-cast dramatizations of the first two of these novels. Narrated by Stephanie Morganstern, and featuring Jacob Daniel Tierney as Jacob, JACOB TWO-TWO AND THE DINOSAUR follows Jacob as he befriends a pet diplodocus (played by Vlasta Vrana) whom he must protect from the violent abuses of adult society. The story is simultaneously funny and touching, and always offbeat. In JACOB TWO-TWO MEETS THE HOODED FANG, the stammering 6-year-old is sent to prison at Slimer's Isle, ruled over by an evil pro-wrestler, the Hooded Fang. The story is simultaneously funny and touching, and always offbeat. These CBC productions, filled with music, sound effects, and dozens of voices, are top-top-notch. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Review
“Everyone should go out tomorrow and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn’t got a nice, plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.”
–New York Times Book Review
Review
?Everyone should go out tomorrow and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn?t got a nice, plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.?
?New York Times Book Review
Book Description
Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up! Although he’s small, Jacob is not helpless, especially when The Infamous Two come to his aid.
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Unjustly imprisoned by the Hooded Fang and other big people, Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of the members of Child Power to free him and two hundred other children.
From the Inside Flap
Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up! Although he’s small, Jacob is not helpless, especially when The Infamous Two come to his aid.
From the Back Cover
“Everyone should go out tomorrow and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn’t got a nice, plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.”
–New York Times Book Review
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang ANNOTATION
Unjustly imprisoned by the Hooded Fang and other big people, Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of the members of Child Power to free him and two hundred other children.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up! Although he’s small, Jacob is not helpless, especially when The Infamous Two come to his aid.
FROM THE CRITICS
Julia Whedon - The New York Times Book Review
Mordecai Richler is a funny man, a good writer, and everyone should go out tomorrow morning and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn't got a nice plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. It is suitable reading for book reviewers in their late thirties and also young children and their grandmothers.
Children's Literature
Jacob Two-Two says everything two times. This is because he is the youngest son in a large British family and no one hears him the first time. Jacob Two-Two has two older brothers, two older sisters, and his age is two plus two plus two years old. When he goes to the greengrocer to buy two pounds of firm red tomatoes, he inexplicably lands in court where he is sentenced to two years, two months, two weeks, two days, two hours, and two minutes in the dungeons of a children's prison. This whimsical adventure is reminiscent of Roald Dahl's books in its humorous portrayal of a young child's view of an adult world. An especially funny chapter describes a toy saboteur who removes pieces from puzzles, batteries from boxes that advertise their inclusion, and English instruction sheets from complicated models. The Hooded Fang that Jacob Two-Two encounters in this story happens to be a prison guard who pretends to hate children while carrying around pockets full of candy. Jacob Two-Two can be found in two other books by the same author. 1997 (orig.
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