![]() Silverstein's many fans will snap up this extended set of more than 40 puzzlepoems. Move over Hinky-Pink: this is sure to become the new classroom wordgame favorite. ![]() ![]() Silverstein also revises ditties such as "Dankee Yoodle" and runs roughshod over politeness ("Stand back! I'm Killy the Bid,/ And I'm fookin' for a light!"). Runny Babbit (HarperCollins, 2005), a posthumous poetry collection of spoonerisms, was conceived and completed before his death. Runny also has an untidy porcine friend, leading him to sing a serenade with an Edward Learish zest and a classic Silverstein twist at the end, "Oh Ploppy Sig, oh pessy mig,/ Oh dilthy firty swine,/ Whoever thought your room would be/ As mig a bess as mine?" Signs posted on Runny's wall remind him, "tick up your poys," "peed your fet" and "bon't delch" a restaurant serves "dot hogs" and "boast reef." Shel Silverstein was born on Septemin Chicago, Illinois, and began writing and drawing at a young age. An introductory poem explains the technique: "If you say, 'Let's bead a rook/ That's billy as can se,'/ You're talking Runny Babbit talk/ Just like mim and he." The exchange of consonants results in a new language, producing Lewis Carroll nonsense or placing familiar words in skewed contexts for instance, Runny's family includes "A sother and two bristers,/ A dummy and a mad," which says a lot about parents. ![]() He illustrates the verse in his signature devil-may-care ink line on bare white pages, and performs letter switcheroos to the point of reader exhaustion. ![]() ) composes poems about cottontail Runny Babbit. In what may be the definitive book of letter-reversal wordplay, late author-illustrator Silverstein ( Where the Sidewalk Ends ![]()
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