I got the book at Barnes & Noble when I was a kid.
Summary:
Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein’s hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms—words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit.
Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.
So if you say, “Let’s bead a rook That’s billy as can se,” You’re talkin’ Runny Babbit talk,
Just like mim and he.
My Review:
As usual, Silverstein’s cover doesn’t disappoint. It’s out of the ordinary yet simple.
Shel Silverstein was one of my favorites back when I was a kid. I read and reviewed Where The Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up and, coincidentally, my mom found this one in the garage the day the second review went up. So I read this one as well.
As usual, this book is filled with charming and silly poems. Shel Silverstein thinks outside the box when it comes to the imagination. It’s a quick read and the poems are great fun to read aloud with others.
It was fun to revisit this one. It’s a book I’ll keep in my library forever and will share with my nieces and nephews for sure.
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein gets…
5 out of 5 cups
Favorite Quote:
“Runny’s Nicpic
One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, “Let’s have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog.” He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring?
Her whole fog framily.” -Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
