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The Odious Ogre
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The Odious Ogre (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Norton Juster (Author), Jules Feiffer (Illustrator) (edit contributors)

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This is the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless. He terrorizes the entire countryside and all the surrounding towns, wreaking havoc, sowing confusion, and dining happily on the hapless... read more

Characters/People edit see section history

  • The Ogre: Has a terrible reputation.
  • The Girl: A sweet, kind and generous person.
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  • “Oh, you're not really so terrible," the girl insisted, with a lovely, musical laugh. "Overbearing perhaps, arrogant for sure, somewhat self-important, a little too mean and violent, I'm afraid, and a bit messy. Your shoes could certainly use a polishing, but I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice." "While you're at it," she thought to herself, "a bath wouldn't hurt either," but she was much too polite to say that.”
    The girl
  • “None of that mattered to the girl. It wasn't even clear to her what all the fuss was about. She had simply treated the Ogre as she treated everyone, with kindness, generosity, and understanding.”
    The narrator
  • “No one can resist me," he had to admit. "I am invulnerable, impregnable, insuperable, indefatigable, insurmountable." He let each satisfying word roll smoothly off his tongue. The Ogre did have quite an impressive vocabulary, due mainly to having inadvertently swallowed a large dictionary while consuming the head librarian in one of the nearby towns.”
  • “The Ogre was stunned. Despair reached to the depths of his shallow soul and he sagged into the tall sycamore that stood to one side of the garden. "It's no use, I'm confounded, overcome, and undone."”
    The Ogre

Setting & Locations edit see section history

The countryside where the ogre lives.

First Sentence edit see section history

There was once an Ogre who had a terrible reputation.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Norton Juster (Author)
  2. Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 32

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