WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY. by Maurice Sendak illustrated by Maurice Sendak ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, Harking back to Hector Protector (), Sendak again pairs two nursery rhymes; but this time, he penetrates deeply into society's ills in his elaborate visual extension of the words. "We are all in the dumps/For diamonds are trumps/The kittens are gone to St. . Jack and Guy Went out in the Rye And they found a little boy With one black eye Come says Jack let's knock Him on the head No says Guy Let's buy him some bread You buy one loaf And I'll buy two And we'll bring him up As other folk do. Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak/5(35). We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy by Maurice Sendak is a book about two nursery rhymes turned into a story. In it, two evil rats steal a litter of kittens and a young child. Jack and Guy decide to get the boy back by playing the rats in a game of cards, but end up loosing. The moon must intervene, who is also a cat, to rescue the child/5.
We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy: two nursery rhymes with pictures by Sendak, Maurice, author, illustrator. Publication date Topics. In Mr. Sendak's imagination, "We Are All in the Dumps" evoked a band of homeless children, like the "child cities" that exist on the fringes of urban areas in South America. Jack and Guy became. This is a potent, evocative book, but Sendak respects children's ability to deal with powerful and potentially controversial issues and ideas. We Are All in the Dumps will lead to discussion, speculation, and a variety of interpretations, all of which are appropriate for this type of allegory.
Jack and Guy give chase, are defeated in a rigged game of bridge and must watch while boy and kittens are carted off to the St. Paul’s Bakery and Orphanage. The moon, which has been observing these goings-on with dismay, now intervenes to collect Jack and Guy, dressed in old newspapers, and dump them into their own rhyme in a field outside a. All throughout, the book emanates Sendak’s greatest lifelong influence — like the verses and drawings of William Blake, Sendak’s visual poetry in We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy is deeply concerned with the human spirit and, especially, with the plight of children. WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY. Harking back to Hector Protector (), Sendak again pairs two nursery rhymes; but this time, he penetrates deeply into society's ills in his elaborate visual extension of the words. "We are all in the dumps/For diamonds are trumps/The kittens are gone to St. Paul's/The baby is bit/The moon's in a fit.
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