Cole’s Funny Picture Book No. 2 Time Capsule Edition

Has Australia’s “second maddest classic” shifted forward in time?

…Or do its readers shift back?…BOTH!…For this is the amazing “Time Capsule” Edition.

The dear old pages are all seen afresh… as they appeared to kids who personally looked like the kids in the pictures.

The old pages are magically held up against the future in the delightful interludes where Thinkyblink the Time Fairy “opens out the Time Capsule”-which is the old book itself. Mr Cole then looks beyond its pages and sees what has happened to his dreams of a non-smoking, healthy, kind, peaceful world “by the year 2000″ and further.

Though lots of fun, this is no”send up” of the original book. In the “open capsule” interludes a fitting respect for E. W. Cole’s humanitarian ideals shines through the fun all the time.

The New No. 2 reinforces the slogan that Cole books are fun books for bright kids…