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Delightfully witty illustrations

Delightfully witty illustrations

Delightfully witty illustrations

Delightfully witty illustrations

Very cute, and enjoyable to anyone who has liked Victoria Roberts' cartoons in the New Yorker.½

Looks like a children's book that has been illustrated by a "New Yorker" cartoonist. Silly and fun read about a family who has lost it all but is living as the rich but outside in Central Park.

This is a quirky story of one very unique New York family. The narrator is 10 year old Alan, and through him we learn about his 7 year old theater obsessed sister Sis, his chain smoking, socialite Mother and his eccentric inventor father, Pops. The family is doing well until some financiers back out on some of Pops' inventions and the family wakes up one morning to find that they, and their stuff, are all set up in Central Park because they are penniless. It's written like a children's book, and lavishly illustrated with New Yorker style drawings by the author (she's been a cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1988), but the story itself is rather more for adults than for children. It's a delightfully odd book that keeps you turning the pages trying to figure out just what is happening to this family. There's a touch of magic to the whole thing that will leave you with a smile on your face. I certainly did on mine.