Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Runny Babbit!

Shel Silverstein (may he rest in peace) had one more good book in him, which has recently been published posthumously. Runny Babbit was twenty years in the making, and the effort shows. Packed with his trademark black and white pen and ink drawings, the fun of the work is his tranposing the first letters of nouns in the brief poems, so "sloppy pig" becomes "poppy slig" and "messy room" becomes "ressy moom." It is especially great to read aloud.