Going, Going, Gone!: And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs - Hardcover

Katz, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416906967 ISBN 13: 9781416906964

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009

Synopsis

Calling all silly dilly fans!

Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs are back again to silly-dilly-fy your world.

The crowd will go wild and join in the chorus, singing sport new lyrics to childhood classics. From football to baseball, soccer to archery, there's a song for every court, field, and sporting occasion. No need to wear a helmet, and you don't even have to shout "Fore!" before singing the golf song!

About this title

About the Author

Alan Katz has been a print and television comedy writer for more than twenty years. In addition to being a multiple Emmy nominee for his work on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and Disney’s Raw Toonage, he has written for children’s programming on Nickelodeon, ABC Television, Warner Brothers Animation’s Taz-Mania, and many others. Alan is the author of several adult humor books; he has written humorous essays for The New York Times and other publications. Alan lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his journalist wife, Rose, and their children Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David. Visit him online at AlanKatzBooks.com.

David Catrow is the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as in nine hundred other newspapers. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.

From Booklist

Children old enough to enjoy a good parody will have a field day with this sports-themed book offering rewritten lyrics for familiar tunes. One example is “I Hope William Won’t Tell” (music: “The William Tell Overture”), in which a young archer misses the target but shoots the tire of his parents’ new car. Using clever word choices and situations familiar to kids, such as a triumph on the miniature golf course or the dampened but irrepressible hope of being picked for a team, Katz creates some very amusing rhymes. Meanwhile, the energy and exaggeration in the droll, large-scale illustrations amplify the humor of the verse tenfold. Fans of Katz and Catrow’s previous picture books of song parodies, such as Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Songs (2001), will want to share this witty collection with their friends. Sing-along, anyone? Grades K-4. --Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1416906967
• ISBN 13: 9781416906964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Catrow David