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Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries Series

Jeanie Franz Ransom and Stephen Axelsen
What Really Happened to Humpty? by Jeanie Franz Ransom (Author); Stephen Axelsen (Illustrator)
The Crown Affair by Jeanie Franz Ransom (Author); Stephen Axelsen (Illustrator)

Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries Series : Titles in Order

Book 2
Full of puns and fractured fairy tale characters you know and love, this rollicking sequel to What REALLY Happened to Humpty? will engross you in yet another Joe Dumpty, Private Eye mystery. 

Jack (Jill’s other half) fell down the Hill and had his crown stolen. The Mother Gooseland Games are coming up, and that crown is the grand prize, so detective Dumpty is on the clock! It’s up to P. I. Joe Dumpty to round up the usual suspects and track down the culprit before it’s too late. He’s hot on the case, but will he recover the crown in time? 

Kids and adults alike will love this laugh-out-loud read-aloud.
Book 1
A scrambled mess . . .

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or–as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks–was he pushed? This case isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Suspects are plenty (as are the puns) in this scrambled story of nursery rhyme noir. Was it Little Miss Muffet? There’s something not right about her tuffet. Or could it have been Chicken Little, who’s always been a little cagey? Or was it the Big Bad Wolf, who’s got a rap sheet as long as a moonless night? Joe’s on the beat and determined to find the truth.

Readers of all ages will delight in the word play and hilarious illustrations in this mystery of what really happened to Humpty Dumpty on that fateful day.

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