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THE LEGEND OF ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

Drew Daywalt Adam Rex

From bestselling creators Drew Daywalt (The Day the Crayons Quit) and Adam Rex comes a laugh-out-loud funny picture book about the legend (aka, wholly invented backstory) of the classic childhood game Rock, Paper, Scissors.
I hope you are wearing your battle pants! You have played the game. Now read the legend of the three great warriors who started it all . . . ROCK! PAPER! SCISSORS!

ike Drew’s Crayons picture books, The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors has a simple, clever concept — the origin of the ubiquitous game — that will immediately hook kids.

Drew Daywalt is an award-winning, New York Times #1 bestselling children's author whose books include The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home. Drew loves to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, but most of the time he cannot decide fast enough which one to pick, and ends up making some bizarre shape with his hand that looks like a weird octopus with a hat. He will claim Weird Octopus with Hat beats everything, but do not let him pull that nonsense on you.

Adam Rex grew up in Arizona, where he and his brother played Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Bomb. Bomb looked like Rock but with your thumb sticking up — it beat Rock and Paper but had its fuse cut off by Scissors, and it completely ruined the dynamic of the game. Adam has written and illustrated numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and the middle grade adventure series, the Cold Cereal Saga. You can visit him at www.adamrex.com.
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Published 2017-03-01 by Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins

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Published 2017-03-01 by Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins

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Daywalt’s over-the-top words are uproariously carried out in Rex’s lush artwork—the expansive cast of inanimate objects are rendered with realistic depth and naturalistic colors, but their hammy, expressive faces and grandiose declarations catapult them to cartoonish heights.

Cheeky humor and prideful asides will have listeners in stitches. A closer-to-perfect pairing couldn't be imagined. Everyone wins!

Forget reading aloud—this story demands bombastic, full-volume performances.