May I Bring A Friend?

• Title: May I Bring A Friend?
• Author: Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
• Illustrator: Beni Montresor
• Publisher: The Trumpet Club, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
• Publication year: 1964
• Brief Summary: From Scholastic-“An imaginative boy graciously accepts an invitation from the King and Queen and then invites them to the zoo.”
• Ideas for using this book in classroom or library – This book could definitely be used to discuss situational irony in a literature class.
• Whatever additional notes you’d like to add about this book and why you liked or didn’t like it – I loved that Montresor took some liberties, especially in the beginning of the text with which “friends” would be making an appearance. I think it adds to the absurdity of this ironic situation.