Book description
Read the book that inspired the famous film franchise in this wonderfully funny picture book.
Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world. Ordinary, thatâŚ
Why read it?
1 author picked Shrek! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Shrek! was a book before it was ever a wildly successful film franchise, but the book bears almost no resemblance to the movies.
Yes, William Steigâs ogre is both vile and reviled, and he has a donkey for a friend, but the story itself is very straightforward, detailing Shrekâs rampage across the countryside on his way to meet a âstunningly ugly princessâ with whom he can live âhorribly ever after.â
Steig had been a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist for almost four decades when he produced his first childrenâs book in 1968. He wrote and drew Shrek! when he wasâŚ
From Paul's list on childrenâs stories by cartoonists.
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