Spinky Sulks

Spinky's awful family! They don't love him, they don't understand him, and nothing any of them can say or do will convince him otherwise. Not his mother's kisses and crullers, not his father's reasonable lecture, not the visits of sister, brother, grandma, and friends. "The world was against him, so he was against the world, and that included all living things–except, of course, animals." What can Spinky possibly do but lie in his hammock "like a pile of laundry," with a blinding case of the sulks? And what can his loving, patient family so to help him out of it?

William Steig addresses himself to this problem with his usual wit and vigor. In Spinky Sulks, Steig's storytelling is at its most playful, with dazzling illustrations to match.