The Cucumber King: Christine NöstlingerThere was a person sitting on the kitchen table a person about eighteen inches tall looking for all the world like a large, fat cucumber. And it was talking Perhaps there's nothing unusual about a cucumber. But a cucumber that talks, that suddenly appears in the kitchen and starts throwing its weight around (about being a KING cucumber) Then to discover it's planning revenge on rebellious cucumber subjects (living in OUR basement) and it expects us to