As A Surfeit of Similes
Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.
Juvenile NonfictionLanguage Arts
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERHarperCollins
LENGTH80
LANGUAGEEN
Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera based on The Phantom Tollbooth. The musical adaptation, with a score by Arnold Black, premiered in 1995. An amateur cook and professional eater, Mr. Juster lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts.
As A Surfeit of Similes
Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.
Juvenile NonfictionLanguage Arts
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERHarperCollins
LENGTH80
LANGUAGEEN
Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera based on The Phantom Tollbooth. The musical adaptation, with a score by Arnold Black, premiered in 1995. An amateur cook and professional eater, Mr. Juster lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts.
