Boober Fraggle's Celery Souffle

by Louise Gikow

Book Overview

Boober Fraggle shares his favorite recipe for celery soufflGe. Depressed as usual, Boober Fraggle decides to cook a delicious meal and goes about the dangerous task of gathering the ingredients and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030007224
• ISBN13: 9780030007224
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Fraggle Rock is due for a comeback

Fraggle Rock has been difficult to find for many years, but it continues to have a persistent cult following. I watched it initially with my grandkids in the 1980s, but became fascinated with it: the eerie underworld of the caverns, the creepy industriousness of the Doozers, the vapid and almost narcotic effect of the songs. For those uninitiated into the world of the Fraggles, they were a motley band of puppets that lived underneath the lawn of a crusty old man, co-existing with a group of insect-like men that built cities out of some kind of secreted lactose or sugar (which the Fraggles would eat.) The Fraggles had all sorts of adventures, but the most profound episodes had them descending deeper into the underworld beneath the lawn, confronting a horde of characters that would make Dante proud. To this day, I am not sure if Fraggle Rock was an ingenious allegory for good and evil, Calvinism and Hedonism, based on Dante and the work of George Santayana; or whether it was a goofy puppet show. This dilemma is what keeps me going. BOOBER FRAGGLE'S CELERY SOUFFLE, while not solving this problem, is an excellent introduction to the obsessiveness and creativity of this puppet troglodytes.