Library Week Wrap Up, Pt. 3: The Funny Thing by Wanda Gag

Thank you for sharing National Library Week 2020 with us! This year, we shared highlights from Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal library. Please enjoy this 4-part series revisiting those titles.

A rarer find in O’Keeffe’s personal library are children’s books – though she did own a few. A dear favorite of many is Wanda Gag’s “The Funny Thing”, published in 1929. Gag, author and illustrator, delights with a story about a man named Bobo living remotely in a cave and cooking for the surrounding animals. When a strange creature, named the Funny Thing, comes along who only eats children’s dolls, Bobo refuses and comes up with a plan to feed the Funny Thing his delicious “jum-jills” instead. 

Gag’s books are strange and surprising, and sure to entertain both kids and adults alike! Gag most popular title is Millions of Cats, read recently by Glenn Close in support of the fundraising effort savewithstories. 

 

 

 

 

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“Millions of Cats” by Wanda Gag (published by @penguinkids and @penguinrandomhouse) - read by @glennclose . THIRTY MILLION CHILDREN rely on school for food. Responding to the needs of kids during these school closures, @savethechildren and @nokidhungry have a new fund @SAVEWITHSTORIES to support food banks, and mobile meal trucks, and community feeding programs with funds to do what they do best—and also—with educational toys, books, and worksheets to make sure brains are full, as well as bellies. . If you can manage a one time gift of $10, please text SAVE to 20222. If another amount would work better for you, please visit our website—link in bio. There is no maximum and there is no minimum—together we will rise and together we can help. . Thank you and stay safe. XX #SAVEWITHSTORIES

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