Dress Up and Let's Have a Party

(Hardback)

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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.

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"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 childrens books as Dress Up and Lets 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 childrens books, winning three New York Times Best Illustrated Books awards and a first prize for illustration at the Bologna Book Fair.