Awful Ogre’s Awful Day

Greenwillow Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. Paul O. Zelinsky. 39 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Awful Ogre starts the day greeting his plethora of pests and goes on to scare villagers, dance in storms, tend to his poisonous garden, and more in an ogre's idea of a perfect day. Written as a set of rhyming poems, Awful Ogre shows that one man's weasel grease is another man's favorite face scrub. Illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky.