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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2017 | Elementary
Gr 1–4–Eighteen years after the author's death and 12 years after the publication of the first collection of Runny Babbit spoonerisms, a new book of 41 "completed but unpublished works" has surfaced from Silverstein's archive. In this volume, Runny Babbit makes discoveries, enjoys himself, and finds his way out of more than a few scrapes. Each situation becomes wackier and more entertaining with the transposed first parts of words and syllables that create the spoonerisms: "Runny porgot his farachute/And p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
This follow-up to Silverstein's posthumously published Runny Babbit is very much a continuation of its predecessor. Spoonerisms (wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


