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    Working Mummies

    By Joan Horton and Drazen Kozjan

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    Get ready for giggles and ghouls in this celebration of hard-working mommies who also happen to be mummies. Here you'll find a doctor mum curing raspy spooks with coffin syrup and a fang-filling dentist completely wrapped up in her dangerous work. You'll also meet a librarian mummy who has her hands full with book worms, a writer mum conjuring spells for readers, and many others. With visual and verbal puns galore, this scream of a book helps illuminate the mysterious world where so many mommies disappear every day—and may also explain why some of them come home slightly unravelled.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 17, 2012
    ISBN9781466815490
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    Working Mummies
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    Joan Horton

    I grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where I attended public schools. Upon graduating from high school, I enrolled as a biology major at what is now the University of Hartford. But before I finished my degree, I left to get married. Several years later, I went back to college and earned a B.A. and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut. Prior to becoming a writer, I worked at Hartford Hospital as a medical technologist. I was also a social worker for a brief time. Like many children, I was raised on Mother Goose rhymes. I can still remember begging my parents to read me just one more poem. Much later, when my four children were grown, I turned once again to the fun-filled magic of these poems and was inspired to write my own rhyming verse. I’m sure I find as much joy in writing for children as did the elusive Mother Goose.

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    • 3/5
      Very punny. Cool illustrations, too.