NOTE - DCM recommends you read this book as SPREADS to fully appreciate the text and illustrations as originally intended by the author.
Much like Newell's 'Hole Book', this children's book has a physical hole through the entire volume.
"the janitor’s mischievous son lights a rocket hidden in the basement of a towering building, a skyscraper by the era’s standards, and sends it blasting vertically upward. Each page depicts the ruckus the rocket creates as it rips through the twenty-one floors..." -themarginalian.org review of The Rocket book, see link above for complete review
Originally printed in 1912 by Harper & Brothers. A product of its time it contains ethnic stereotypes. Scanner unknown. |