The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

It starts off as an ordinary class trip to the farm—boring, kind of dull.

But before very long, chaos takes over as one zany incident leads to another, even zanier, one. Soon the entire farm is uproariously out of control.

Steven Kellog's full-color pictures prove an ideal match for Trinka Hakes Noble's droll cumulative tale in this slapstick romp.

Trinka Hakes Noble
has, with
The King's Tea
and Karin's Christmas Walk, established herself as a talented new illustrator for children's books. Now The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash reveals that she is also a fine comic writer. Ms. Noble submitted the story without pictures because she felt that it could be more appropriately illustrated in a style different from her own. Steven Kellog's wonderfully zany drawings provide the perfect compliment to her text.

Steven Kellog
is one of the most popular and prolific author-illustrators of children's books around. Among his many well-known titles are Pinkerton, behave!, The Island of the Skog, and The Mysterious Tadpole. Most recently he wrote and illustrated Uproar on Hollercat Hill by Jean Marzollo.