Eddie Spaghetti

by Rutu Modan

In this book aimed at early readers, an acclaimed contemporary cartoonist rebooted the classic character Eddie Spaghetti (Uri Kaduri), beloved by generations of Hebrew-language readers. Eddie, accompanied by his big goofy dog, goes fishing in his goldfish bowl, saws the legs off a too-high table, and takes a bath with his clothes on! The bright colors, lively drawings, and sing-songy rhymes will delight young readers as they follow along Eddie’s lighthearted mischief. Originally created by Israeli artist Aryeh Navon and Lea Golberg in the 1930s, Rutu Modan offers her own playful take on this classic character for a new, international generation of young readers. These comics were specifically created for children age three and up. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Hardcover

Published February 19, 2019

About the author

Rutu Modan (Hebrew: רותו מודן) was born in Tel-Aviv in 1966. In 1992 she graduated cum laude from the illustration program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Shortly after graduating, she began regularly writing and illustrating comic strips and stories for Israel's leading daily newspapers, as well as editing the Israeli edition of MAD magazine with Yirmi Pinkus. Together, they founded Actus Tragicus, an internationally acclaimed collective and independent publishing house for alternative comic artists, in 1995. The following year she collaborated with Israeli author Etgar Keret on her first graphic novel, Nobody Said it Was Going to Be Fun, an Israeli bestseller. Rutu has worked as an illustrator for magazines and books in Israel and abroad, with illustrations published in The New York Times, New Yorker and Le Monde, among many other renowned publications.

She has received much recognition for her work, including four Best Illustrated Children's Book Awards from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The Israel Ministry of Culture named Rutu Modan the Young Artist of the Year in 1997, and she was one of the contributors to the Eisner-Nominated Actus Tragicus anthology Jet Lag in 1999. In 2001 she won the Andersen Award for Illustration from the International Board on Books for Young People in Basel, Switzerland, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Best Story and Promising New Talent for her story "Bygone" in Flipper, Vol. 2 (Actus Tragicus / Top Shelf.) She has been a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation since 2005, and in 2006 she was nominated for the Angoulême Festival's Goccini Award, granted to a scriptwriter whose past year's work deserves special praise.

Reviews

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eddie and his big goofy dog engage in lighthearted mischief.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ex-Library may be foolish since it's uncleanable and rips easily

This is a poor man's "Quick & Flupke"- basically just the former, sometimes with dog, at only half the pages.

I was only impressed with how Modan made the art ideal for the subject matter and how the translator, Ilana Kurshan, somehow made it all rhyme every other line!

[Jj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty nice timeless humor for kids and families, and I love the history here. Plus the black outlines of everything mean these would translate very well to coloring pages, which I'm just going to throw out there in the hopes that Fantagraphics can somehow rig that up.

[Linda Atkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, you clever boy ;-)

[Nick Nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[The girl who owns the moon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it 5/5