Silly Book, The - Hardcover

Cole, Babette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385412371 ISBN 13: 9780385412377

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1990

Synopsis

Lists in humorous verse the many silly things to be seen if you look closely

About this title

About the Author:

Babette Cole is filled with zest for life: she lives in Lincolnshire but travels extensively, to exotic parts of the world but also round this country, visiting schools and meeting children. She is a great animal lover and keeps chickens, sheep, horses, dogs and cats which all find their way into her books.

From School Library Journal:

From the daffy sheep springing across the endpapers to the sheep-suited child (wearing his wool suit) at the end, Cole packs a stack of silliness between the covers of this book. In a series of vignettes, a parade of people and an animal or two show off goofy walks, heads, pets, food, and behavior. Held together by the occasional appearance of the child narrator, the book is a collection of observations in verse on the foibles of the ordinary and nonsensical in life. Cole's brightly distinctive watercolors portray the shenanigans with her usual broad strokes of absurdity. The double- and single- page spreads, large type and format lend themselves to use with groups, although beginning readers will enjoy this book too. Although the situations aren't quite as knee-slapping as Marc Brown's Pickle Things (Parents, 1980) or Morrison's Squeeze a Sneeze (Houghton, 1977), there is still enough high-spirited fun to keep older preschoolers and independent readers chortling along. --Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha Public Library, WI
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385412371
• ISBN 13: 9780385412377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32