Runny Babbit
A Billy Sook
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 6, 2015
From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.
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- Who it’s for
- Spoonerisms turn familiar phrases into playful puzzles, giving every line a little verbal mischief.
- Themes
- Spoonerisms and wordplay, Topsy-turvy language
- Genres
- Poetry, Funny Stories, Rabbit Stories
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From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit. 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.
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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. And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!
Words Gone Wonky
Spoonerisms turn familiar phrases into playful puzzles, giving every line a little verbal mischief.
Come here for
- A topsy-turvy language built from swapped letters and syllables
- Names like Toe Jurtle and Dungry Hog
Expect
- Funny poems that invite reading aloud
- A wordplay puzzle in nearly every phrase
Where it sits
| Poetry | 52% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 41% |
| Rabbit Stories | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Pet Stories
- Rabbit Stories
- The Classics
- Alphabet Books
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- Word Books
- Stories About Divorce
- Stepfamily Stories
- Funny Stories
- Authors
- Shel Silverstein
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 6, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Spoonerisms and wordplay · Topsy-turvy language
- Reading lane
- Pet Stories