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Runny Babbit
A Billy Sook
By Silverstein, Shel
- ISBN
- 978-0-06025-653-1 978-0-06028-404-6
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2005
Gr 2-8 In this "billy sook," which was a 20-year work-in-progress, readers are introduced to Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Goctor Doose, and Millie Woose, and are encouraged to plunge headlong into this phonemic flip-flop world of funny poems. "So if you say, 'Let's bead a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2005
It's been nine years since the publication of Falling Up and six since Silverstein's death, so this new book is a surprising treat. As the title warns, it is a very "billy sook" indeed, as the words throughout the poems swap first and occasionally second letters, so "instead of sayin' 'purple hat,' / They all say 'hurple pat.'" Runny Babbit, the book's hero, and his friends (inc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
