**Read this book aloud so that youngsters can chime in. . . . Children
will delight in this energetic, amusing, and very approachable tale.
--School Library Journal
**
Do you know what Jack and Jill were arguing about before they went up
the hill? And what happened before that? Every story, every person, and
every thing started somewhere. Author Allan Ahlberg and illustrator
Bruce Ingman, the whimsical team behind The Runaway Dinner and The
Pencil, reverse direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in
which everyone lives happily ever . . . before.