{"product_id":"a-chocolate-box-menagerie-von-paul-freeman","title":"A Chocolate Box Menagerie","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Chocolate Box Menagerie is a wonderful little volume of charming poems full of strange creatures with recognizable personalities. Freeman explores the child's world in which there is no distinction between animate and inanimate. A packet of spaghetti is as likely to be looking for love as a sparrow. Starfish gaze at the night sky and wonder from where they've dropped. And bathroom mirrors live in constant torment, unable to flee from what they have to witness every day!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe read of domestic dramas: the marmalade's bitterness towards the jam; the macaroon's attempt at singing and dancing; and the infidelity of a pickled herring. There are also many poems about exotically named animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is remarkable for its wit and inventiveness. Has anyone written before about the yearnings of a bacon sandwich, or told of the tragic life of a coat hanger? Who has ever thought to create a world peopled by letters of the alphabet? And all this is done with the enduring grace and beauty of meter and rhyme that will surely appeal to all ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781943003662\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781943003662","offer_id":40641991180381,"sku":"9781943003662","price":23.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ae721969-8b3d-453a-b312-17ee336e687e.jpg?v=1751256638","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/a-chocolate-box-menagerie-von-paul-freeman","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}