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 * // The Jester Has Lost //**** His Jingle by David Saltzman **



 **Hardcover:** 64 pages  **Publisher:** Jester Co Inc; 1 edition (October 1, 1995)  **Language:** English  **ISBN-10:** 0964456303  **ISBN-13:** 978-0964456303  **Product Dimensions:** 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 inches Saltzman, David. //The Jester Has Lost His Jingle//. 1st ed. Jester Co Inc, 1995. 1-64. Print.
 * Bibliographical Data:**

The book is about a jester who works within a kingdom. One day he wakes up and cannot make the king laugh, nor can he make anyone else within the kingdom laugh. The Jester goes on an adventure to find laughter with his puppet Pharley. The Jester ends up in New York City and finds it to be a very negative place. The people there are grumpy and rude. He visits a hospital in New York and finds a little girl who has cancer. At first he cannot make her laugh because she believes there is no reason for her to laugh. He eventually is able to make her laugh. The laugh starts out small, but becomes big and travels through the city into the rest of the world. This laughter brightens everyone up and everyone he passes is laughing. The Jester ends up back in the kingdom where he finds the king and his friends laughing. The book ends with everyone being happy and the Jester being proud of himself to have brought laughter back to the world.
 * Summary of the book:**

This is one of my favorite books. I love the inspiring messages within the book and believe it would be a good book for children who have personal struggles to overcome. It teaches them that they can find yourself even when in doubt or feeling down about yourself. It also shows the importance of smiling when you are down because everything kind of works out no matter how bleak the situation looks. Most importantly, the book teaches the importance of laughter and personal strength in adverse situations. This book is always one I enjoy reading when feeling down, even to today. It is a book I want to have every student within my future classroom read because it is such a self-worth inspiring and personal values book.
 * Review of the book:**

There is not much information on the internet about David Saltzman. He began a career as a cartoonist with comics in California. The comic strip was called the “Chadwick Chronicles”. The comic strip was a parody to student life. He also drew for the LA Times out in California. Saltzman then went on to Yale where he developed another comic strip character there called “Pops”. In his senior year of college, Saltzman was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. During this year he kept a journal of his thoughts and feelings, and used this to write //The Jester Has Lost His Jingle//. Saltzman died on March 2, 1990.
 * Author Bio:**

One of the first things that drew me to this book was its illustrations. Saltzman uses very colorful and bold illustrations throughout the book and it really added to the uniqueness of the book. He also uses these illustrations to convey emotion. When the Jester is happy and content, the pictures are colorful and bright. For example, when the Jester is putting on his routine to make people laugh, Saltzman uses many different colors and very uplifting ones (yellows, oranges, reds, etc.). In addition, when the Jester is surrounded by unpleasant and unhappy situations, the colors are grey and dull. For example, when he first arrived in New York City, the pictures held a lot of grey, brown, and black colors. The reader always knows the emotion the Jester is feeling because of the colors used within the illustrations. Furthermore, the facial expressions of the characters are always apparent. The reader can always tell when the characters are mad, sad, happy, excited, or laughing based on what the illustrations display. The illustrations always display the emotions behind the writing on the page
 * Analysis of Literary Element:**

http://www.thejester.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpnJrzJdxMY .
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