The Possum That Didn'T by Frank Tashlin

The Possum That Didn'T by Frank Tashlin

There once was a happy little possum, the happiest animal in the entire forest, who always wore a great big smile. This jolly creature was content simply to hang by his tail from a tree until he was discovered by a group of picnickers. Mistaking the possum's upside-down smile for a frown, the people resolve to rescue him―and they turn the little possum's world topsy-turvy.
Strikingly illustrated in black-and-white, this memorable satire of cultural intolerance was created by Frank Tashlin, the famed animator, film director, and author of The Bear That Wasn't. Readers of all ages will appreciate the book's message as well as its distinctive drawings.
Dover (2016) republication of the edition originally published by Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1950.
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Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was born in New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York. As a teenager he worked as an errand boy, inker, and animator at several pioneering animation
studios in New York. By 1933 he had moved to Hollywood, where he wrote and directed cartoon shorts for MGM and Warner Bros., and briefly served as head of production at Screen Gems. Tashlin also worked for a while at Disney Studios, helping to organize its embattled animators' union. During his early years in California, Tashlin drew a syndicated
pantomime-style cartoon strip called Van Boring, and during the Second World War, he worked on the military's Private Snafu series (created by Frank Capra and Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel). Though he retired from animation in the mid-1940s, Tashlin is recognized as an influential stylist who brought cinematographic techniques and inventive camera angles to the medium. Moving from cartoons to live action, Tashlin worked for a time as a comedy writer before fulfilling his ambition to write and direct feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope, and for screwball comedies like The Girl Can't Help It and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Tashlin has described The Bear That Wasn't (1946) as precious and special to me. It was followed by two more picture books, The 'Possum That Didn't (1950) and The World That Wasn't (1951).

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ISBN 13	9780486800806
ISBN 10	0486800806
Title	The Possum That Didn'T
Author	Frank Tashlin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2016-03-25
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.