Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

by Mordecai Richler, Dusan Petricic (Illustrator)

Overview

Poor Jacob Two-Two, only two plus two plus two years old and already a prisoner of The Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such terrible punishment? Why, the worst crime of all – insulting a grown-up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887769252
Publisher:	Tundra
Publication date:	09/08/2009
Series:	Jacob Two-Two , #1
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931. Raised there in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, he attended Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). In 1951 he left Canada for Europe, settling in London, England, in 1954. Eighteen years later, he moved back to Montreal.

Novelist and journalist, screenwriter and editor, Richler, one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers, has spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his upbringing. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.

Richler’s many honours include two Governor General’s Awards and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting.

Mordecai Richler died in Montreal, Quebec, in 2001.

Editorial Reviews

Selection 2018 – BookRiot 50 Must-Read Canadian Children’s and YA Books

“Mordecai Richler is a funny man, a good writer, and everyone should go out tomorrow morning and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn’t got a nice plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang…. It is ghastly and funny…an unbelievably believable unbelievable place with no artificial sweeteners or preservatives.”
–The New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

Mordecai Richler is a funny man, a good writer, and everyone should go out tomorrow morning and beat his local bookseller into submission if he hasn't got a nice plump display of books titled Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. It is suitable reading for book reviewers in their late thirties and also young children and their grandmothers.
—The New York Times Book Review

Julia Whedon