Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

Silverstein, Shel

ISBN 10: 1846143861 / ISBN 13: 9781846143861

Published by Particular Books, 2011

Seller Inventory # Shelfdream1846143861

Synopsis:

Runny Babbit lent to wunch
And heard the saitress way,
'We have some lovely stabbit rew -
Our Special for today.'

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. It's filled with the most amazing adventures and tongue-twisting rhymes imaginable. And, what's more, Shel Silverstein wrote this yook especially for bou.

About the Author: Shel Silverstein's very first children's book Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back was published in 1963, and followed the next year by two other books. The first of those, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy; it took four years before Harper Children's books decided to publish it. Shel returned to humour that same year with A Giraffe and a Half. His first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, appeared in 1974, and his second, A Light in the Attic, in 1981. When he was a G.I. in Japan and Korea in the 1950, he learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including 'A Boy Named Sue' for Johnny Cash. In 1984, Silverstein won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends - 'recited, sung and shouted' by the author. He was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, 'The Lady or the Tiger Show.' The last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
Publisher: Particular Books
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: hardcover
Condition: new