Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this playful story inspired by the impossible buildings of the artist M. C. Escher, Mauk's master is building a grand Palazzo. When something strange and wonderful happens, Mauk is catapulted into a topsy-turvy world. The author draws us into an astounding world where the reader turns Mauk on his head and sends him all the way back to his story's beginning in a dazzling endless loop.