Yiddish with Dick and Jane
$42.62
- Hardcover
104 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2004
Summary
Jane is in real estate. Today is Saturday. Jane has an open house. She must schlep the Open House signs to the car. See Jane schlep. Schlep, Jane. Schlep. Schlep, schlep, schlep. In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane—hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read—manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can‘t deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude—part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316159722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316159727 |
| Author: | Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman |
| Publisher: | Little Brown and Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 132mm x 184mm |
| Series: | Dick and Jane (Hardcover) |
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Ellis Weiner
Ellis Weiner has been an editor of National Lampoon, a columnist for Spy, and a contributor to many magazines, including The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. Barbara Davilman began her career in New York in advertising and now writes sitcoms
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