Amazon Prime Free Trial
FREE Delivery is available to Prime members. To join, select "Try Amazon Prime and start saving today with FREE Delivery" below the Add to Cart button and confirm your Prime free trial.
Amazon Prime members enjoy:- Cardmembers earn 5% Back at Amazon.com with a Prime Credit Card.
- Unlimited FREE Prime delivery
- Streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with limited ads on Prime Video.
- A Kindle book to borrow for free each month - with no due dates
- Listen to over 2 million songs and hundreds of playlists
Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a monthly membership.
-22% $14.00$14.00
Ships from: Amazon.com Sold by: Amazon.com
$9.49$9.49
Ships from: Amazon Sold by: RNA TRADE LLC
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- To view this video download Flash Player
- VIDEO
Audible sample
The Odious Ogre Hardcover – Picture Book, September 1, 2010
Purchase options and add-ons
- Reading age1 year and up
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level1 - 2
- Lexile measureAD880L
- Dimensions9.5 x 0.5 x 12.75 inches
- PublisherMichael di Capua Books
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2010
- ISBN-109780545162029
- ISBN-13978-0545162029
Frequently bought together
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From School Library Journal
© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
About the Author
JULES FEIFFER has won a number of prizes for his cartoons, plays, and screenplays, including the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His books for children include THE MAN IN THE CEILING, I'M NOT BOBBY!, A ROOM WITH A ZOO, and BARK, GEORGE.
Product details
- ASIN : 0545162025
- Publisher : Michael di Capua Books; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780545162029
- ISBN-13 : 978-0545162029
- Reading age : 1 year and up
- Lexile measure : AD880L
- Grade level : 1 - 2
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.5 x 0.5 x 12.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,527,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,165 in Early Learning Beginner Readers
- #5,950 in Children's Spine-Chilling Horror
- #10,102 in Children's Beginner Readers
- Customer Reviews:
Videos
Videos for this product
0:34
Click to play video
The Odious Ogre
Merchant Video
About the author
Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera based on The Phantom Tollbooth. The musical adaptation, with a score by Arnold Black, premiered in 1995 and will soon be performed in schools and theaters nationwide. An amateur cook and professional eater, Mr. Juster lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonCustomers say
Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable to read aloud. They appreciate the wonderful artwork and find it suitable for children in grades 2-5. The book teaches children about understanding others and how their view of others is based on their actions.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Customers enjoy reading the book. They find the illustrations and words amusing, making it a joy to laugh together and show one another the wonderful artwork.
"What a fun read! And oh! can you be dramatic when reading aloud. And such delicious vocabulary to briefly explain!..." Read more
"...of a story with marvelous illustrations that are fun for the young and "young at heart"." Read more
"...They found the author's use of words just as amusing as in Phantom Tollbooth." Read more
"...Then we read it aloud together, using our webcams. What a joy to laugh together and show one another the wonderful artwork! Thank you Amazon." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's visual quality. They mention the wonderful artwork and find it beautiful to look at and read.
"...And such delicious vocabulary to briefly explain! The fantastic illustrations throughout are very fitting for the tale...." Read more
"...skinny line has been fleshed out with eye-tickling and visually satisfying watercolors. It's a beauty to look at, and beautiful to read...." Read more
"...listeners, believe me, this is one humdinger of a story with marvelous illustrations that are fun for the young and "young at heart"." Read more
"...What a joy to laugh together and show one another the wonderful artwork! Thank you Amazon." Read more
Customers enjoy reading the book aloud to children in grades 2-5. They find it fun and enjoyable, with interesting vocabulary to explain. The book teaches children about understanding others and how their views of others depend on them. Readers also mention that the book is suitable for dramatizing when reading aloud.
"...And so it did the ogre. Very suitable as a read aloud to grades 2-5 (even higher); independent readers should probably be in grade 3.2,..." Read more
"Well known author and illustrator. A child's book. For anyone over 8 it is a waste of money." Read more
"This book is great for teaching children about understanding others and how their view of you is dependent on how you view yourself and how you act." Read more
"This is so much fun to read aloud...." Read more
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2015What a fun read! And oh! can you be dramatic when reading aloud. And such delicious vocabulary to briefly explain! The fantastic illustrations throughout are very fitting for the tale. The surprising ending, though, is quite a disappointment, but goodness, kindness, generosity, politeness--everything the bullying ogre didn't have--was his undoing in the end. Some who remember such a saying would agree that this is a story exemplifying "turning the other cheek"--oh, how that infuriates the other person. And so it did the ogre.
Very suitable as a read aloud to grades 2-5 (even higher); independent readers should probably be in grade 3.2, unless precocious.
The Creative Teacher: Activities for Language Arts (Grades 4 through 8 and Up)
- Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2010There is a certain poignancy to reading "The Odious Ogre." Norton Juster, the writer, and Jules Feiffer, the illustrator, jointly created "The Phantom Tollbooth" five decades ago, and in doing so, created one of the most perfect children's books in history. Juster's copy and Feiffer's illustrations fit seamlessly together--so seamlessly that you'd think the two men shared the same brain. Words and pictures alike shared a wry, slightly ironic yet simultaneously very earnest sensibility and complemented each other perfectly. Among children's book geniuses, only Dr. Seuss was able to marry words and pictures as effectively. Their work combined to form what is truly a work of wonder--a very New York-Jewish magical allegory, the unmistakable subtext of which is, "Learning stuff is cool," without even a hint of preachiness, self-righteousness, or sanctimoniousness. Kids can see right through that and instinctively despise it, but no one in his or her right mind has ever despised "The Phantom Tollbooth."
The poignancy of reading "The Odious Ogre" comes in when you wonder why it took these two guys fifty years to do another book. Now, at (what is hopefully not) the twilight of their lives, I suppose they figured, "Well, we did one classic. Maybe we'd better knock out another one before it's too late." I'm glad they did, but I wish they'd done a lot more together.
"The Odious Ogre" is lush where "The Phantom Tollbooth" is spare. Juster's language is deliriously self-indulgent ("I am invulnerable, impregnable, insuperable, indefatigable, insurmountable!" the ogre bellows at one point), perhaps a little too much so for younger readers (but if read aloud with the right gusto, they won't notice it). And Feiffer's trademark skinny line has been fleshed out with eye-tickling and visually satisfying watercolors. It's a beauty to look at, and beautiful to read.
But best of all, "The Odious Ogre" retains the knowing, savvy, and ever so slightly subversive morality of "Tollbooth." People are easily cowed and buffaloed by bullies, and the bullies know this. But bullies are stupid--slaves to their own methods of intimidation and to routine. The unexpected throws them off-kilter, as does the realization that the object of their bullying may just turn out to be tougher than they are.
"The Odious Ogre" ought to be on the bookshelf of every bright and bookish parent who's trying to raise a bright and bookish child. I truly hope that this isn't the last hurrah of Team Juster-Feiffer, but if it is, they went out with a bang.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2010I have read this book to three grandchildren, ages 3,4&5. They all just love the story and just literally eat up the wonderful vocabulary. We are babysitting this week for grandchildren ages 3 & 5 and after three nights of the story they already have several lines memorized and can't hardly wait to say them out-loud along with Grandma. They are literally clamoring for the Odious Ogre reading to begin. If you love reading to your kids and relish stories with dialogue lines that you can "act out" for your little listeners, believe me, this is one humdinger of a story with marvelous illustrations that are fun for the young and "young at heart".
- Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2010I bought this book based upon the rave reviews it received in the national media, including on NPR. The author and his illustrator collaborator produced a wonderful book 50 years ago, The Phantom Tollbooth, that is now considered a classic, the story went, and they have now reunited to write another noteworthy children's book. I was intrigued and ordered both books, and have been delighted with their original work.
Not so with The Odious Ogre. This 21st century offering peddles the notion that if we simply ignore the odiousness of enemies and extend the "warm muffin" of kindness to them, they will decide "It's no use, I'm confounded, overcome, and undone," and in short order keel over, and expire in "uncomprehending disbelief."
Would that the world were so simple and those who, like the ogre, wish to rend our flesh for their own gratification, could so easily be brought to self-mortification. But that is not the world we live in, and it is foolishness to put forth such soft-headed notions in children's literature.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2010When I heard that the author and illustrator of The Phantom Tollboth were collaborating again I was pretty stoked. I love The Phantom Tollboth. I have read it several times. And we've read it outloud as a family.
A brief blurb of The Odious Ogre sounded like the book had potential. I eagerly looked forward to reading the book.
I am under impressed.
While The Phantom Tollboth was aimed at young readers who had moved passed chapter books, The Odious Ogre is a picture book designed for parents to read to children. It is a short book, about 32 pages, and could be read out loud in five to ten minutes.
But this is not a book I would read to my four-year-old. The first third of the book is about an ogre eats people. Cannibalism is not a topic I think young children need exposure to.
A young woman, who is kind, generous and understanding "defeats" the ogre. While the point that kindness and understanding are characteristics of strong people and have value, there was too much deus ex machina for me.
There are better books and I encourage you to skip this one.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2010I used it with my Gifted and Talented L/A class as a read aloud (each taking a page or two). I am using it to demo types of books. They found the author's use of words just as amusing as in Phantom Tollbooth.
Top reviews from other countries
- Oh dearReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Grandson, Sully loved it.
Excellent choice