{"product_id":"what-really-happened-to-humpty-isbn-9781580893916","title":"What Really Happened to Humpty?","description":"A scrambled mess . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or--as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks--was he pushed? This case isn't all it's cracked up to be. Suspects are plenty (as are the puns) in this scrambled story of nursery rhyme noir. Was it Little Miss Muffet? There's something not right about her tuffet. Or could it have been Chicken Little, who's always been a little cagey? Or was it the Big Bad Wolf, who's got a rap sheet as long as a moonless night? Joe's on the beat and determined to find the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of all ages will delight in the word play and hilarious illustrations in this mystery of what really happened to Humpty Dumpty on that fateful day.Clever wordplay marks Ransom's (\u003ci\u003eWhat Do Your Parents Do\u003c\/i\u003e? [\u003ci\u003eWhen You're Not Home\u003c\/i\u003e]) fast-paced, noir-styled offering. Detective Joe Dumpty unravels the real reason his brother, Humpty, took a spill, interviewing characters that hail from the pages of Mother Goose (she puts in an appearance, too). The puns, a little more subtle than in similar stories, are on target for the suggested audience, e.g., “I looked at my brother. He wasn't moving. Whoever did this was gonna fry!” Axelsen (the \u003ci\u003ePiccolo and Annabelle\u003c\/i\u003e series) provides plenty of humor with busy cartoon illustrations, many of them inset with boxed vignettes; Chicken Little and her offspring, for example, wear crash helmets and reside in a fortified bunker. The noir conventions add a layer of sophistication to the nursery-rhyme setting, ratcheting up the book's appeal for primary-grade readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003eJeanie Franz Ransom is the author of several books, including WHAT PARENTS DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT HOME and GRANDMA U. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.","brand":"Charlesbridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299980136677,"sku":"NP9781580893916","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781580893916.jpg?v=1767743882","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/what-really-happened-to-humpty-isbn-9781580893916","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}