I Am Papa Snap

I watched The Triplets of Belleville this weekend, finally, and was delighted by it.  It reminded me how unnecessary dialogue can be.  And the shapes of the buildings and cars and people and boats were wonderfully distorted to convey the mood of the object -- an impossibly tall freighter ship, for example, or crazily long old-time gangster cars.  It reminded me of a children's book I found at a library book sale years ago and grabbed for a dear friend.  The book is called I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite No-Such Stories.  The illustrations are wonderful and the stories are absurd, dark, sad, and silly.