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<p><P><blockquote> <P> <i>Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way,<br> We have some lovely stabbit rew &#151; <br> Our Special for today.</i> <P> </blockquote> <P> From the legendary creator of <i>Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up,</i> and <i>The Giving Tree</i> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. <P>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. <P> <blockquote> <P> <i>So if you say, Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se,<br> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, <br> Just like mim and he.</i> <P> </blockquote></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In what may be the definitive book of letter-reversal wordplay, late author-illustrator Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends) composes poems about cottontail Runny Babbit. 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. An introductory poem explains the technique: If you say, `Let's bead a rook/ That's billy as can se,'/ You're talking Runny Babb

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Author
shel silverstein, Shel Silverstein
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060256531
Category
work of literary fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
Rating
4.12 / 5 (7,322 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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