DK Baby Fun: Humpty Dumpty

by Dave King

A favorite nursery rhyme brought up to date with stylish photography - the perfect way to have fun with your baby.

Baby Fun books combine rhyming verses and simple pictures to entertain the newest minds. Familiar text and bright, fresh designs spark baby's intellectual development and make reading time an important bonding opportunity.

16 pages, Hardcover

First published January 19, 2004

About the author

Dave King holds a BFA in painting
and film from Cooper Union and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. King's debut novel, The Ha-Ha, was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and was among eighteen books included on The Washington Post list of the season's best novels. The Ha-Ha was a finalist for Book-of-the-Month Club's "Best Literary Fiction" award and the Quills Foundation "Best Debut Author" award and won King a 2006-07 Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

King's poetry has been published in The Paris Review, among other venues, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught English at Baruch College and cultural studies and poetry at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and he divides his time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley of New York.

The Ha-Ha is currently in development from Warner Brothers Pictures, with Tod Williams slated to direct. The book has also found success in several foreign language editions, with more forthcoming.

Reviews

[Avonlea Rose · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are tons of Humpty Dumpties out there, and this one has to be the least interesting I've come across.