Dress Up and Let's Have a Party
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Dress Up and Let's Have a Party
By (Author) Remy Charlip
Enchanted Lion Books
Enchanted Lion Books
10th April 2018
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Clothing and fashion
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Physical Properties
Hardback
32
Width 205mm, Height 140mm
186g
Description
What do you wear to a dress-up party Here are some ideas!
John and his friends come together for a party, using the everyday things around them to construct inventive costumes on the spot. Pots and pans, an empty soap box, your mother's clothes-these are all things you can wear to a dress-up party! Playing dress-up is a way to be a new self and to imagine for a moment that you are different from who you really are. It's a way to be extravagant or silly, a way to surprise yourself and have a great time!
Written by the prolific and beloved Remy Charlip, Dress Up and Let's Have a Party is a clever, playful reminder that the potential for fun is always at hand. Originally published in the United States in 1956, Dress Up and Let's Have A Party was his first book.
Reviews
"Decked out in his mothers pots and pans while she bakes a cake, John is inspired to ask his friends to come to his party in costume and we wait with him to see what theyll be wearing when, at the turn of the page, they come through the door. No dullards here: a carton on the street turns Hans into a special delivery package; a ball of string makes Vera a meatball covered with spaghetti. The final surprise comes when John carries in the cake, with the single word happy visible. In Charlip territory, nothing is all spelled out."The Horn Book
Author Bio
Remy Charlip was the writer and illustrator of such beloved children's books as Dress Up and Let's Have a Party and Fortunately!, in addition to being an artist, choreographer, teacher, and founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was a graduate of Cooper Union, where he studied fine arts. Charlip viewed his wide-ranging artistic endeavors as similar in spirit, calling them all forms of "internal dance." He wrote or illustrated dozens of children's books, winning three New York Times Best Illustrated Books awards and a first prize for illustration at the Bologna Book Fair.
