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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
 | Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook Shel Silverstein Date: 15 March, 2005 — $12.23 — Book Rating: |
I thought this a bupid thook initially. Shel Silverstein's inimitable humorous stye uses the convention of swapping first consanants of adjoining pairs of words to make with the silly. It gets eye-rollingly annoying after about three pages. The pairings are occasionally snort out loud funny, and clever children will get a kick out of the poems about Runny Babbit, Toe Jurtle and others, but I got a headache, one of those sharp ones that usually comes from eating ice cream, and wasn't willing to concentrate as hard as I needed to in order to get the point.
Silverstein's classic black ink line drawings accompany the verses, extending the funniest parts of each rhyme. Sure to be a hit with someone in your library. Make sure you practice refore beading aloud.
