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Here’s a very funny “learn-to-count” book for toddlers, complete with a big bright yellow button that shows through the front cover and quacks like a chuckling duck when pressed As Mom or Dad opens the first board page and begins reading the story aloud, kids can count ten little ducklings They lose one duckling at a time as pages are turned and each baby duck wanders off to find a new friend. The ducklings are constructed of 3D plastic attached to the pages. Each little duck appears—or disappears—through its own series of die-cut holes, as pages are turned and the number of holes decreases. Kids will enjoy learning to count as they watch each duck make friends with a different farmyard animal..
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A genre-defining masterpiece of graphic noir comes back into print.

In The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a densely constructed, melodramatic murder mystery involving astrology, ghouls, academia and outsider art. Part noir, part horror, and part comedy, this labyrinthian tale of intrigue follows an unemployed writer named Broom who becomes unwittingly ensnared in a complex plot involving mysterious outsider artist Emile Jarnac, the shadowy machinations of the Ghoul Appreciation Society Headquarters (GASH), and the enigmatic Mr. Ixnay. Sala's deadpan delivery makes this ingeniously layered narrative a roller-coaster ride of darkly pure comic suspense.

Sala's drawing style, while most often compared to Edward Gorey, also reveals the influence of everything from Hollywood monster movies and Dick Tracy to German expressionism and Grimm's fairy tales. It's a style that's perfectly suited to the narrative, constantly flirting with Sala's fascination for the grotesque and lending palpable tension to the gruesome riddle of The Chuckling Whatsit.

Sala's eclectic career includes contributions to Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine, MTV's Liquid Television, The New York Times, Playboy, and his ongoing Evil Eye comic book series from Fantagraphics, though The Chuckling Whatsit remains his most popular work..
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