Rose's Are Red, Violet's Are Blue : And Other Silly Poems

Tripp, Wallace

ISBN 10: 0316854409 / ISBN 13: 9780316854405

Published by Little Brown & Company, 1999

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rose's Are Red, Violet's Are Blue : And Other Silly Poems
• Publisher: Little Brown & Company
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316854409
• ISBN 13: 9780316854405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.831 pounds

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Synopsis

An amusing illustrator adds intelligence and wit to simple and silly verse which includes characters such as a Moppsikon, Floppsikon Bear on a motorcycle, a poet named Palmstroem, and a fearsome Jabberwocky. 10,000 first printing.

Reviews

Grade 3-8-Those tempted to correct the apostrophe in the title should be warned that it is the first of many jokes Tripp will play on his readers, for it alludes to the red spots on Rose the pig in a poem by Tripp himself. Also included are two entries by Edward Lear, the full text of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Excelsior," and seven other silly selections. While younger readers will enjoy the antics of Tripp's menagerie of cartoon characters and the nonsense of the poems, older readers will best appreciate all of the allusions and visual jokes the artist has added to his work. Thus, when Lear's "There Was an Old Person of Ware" ends with a "Moppsikon Floppsikon bear," observant readers are sure to be amused by the illustration of a bear on a motorcycle, followed by a strangely familiar rabbit in a blue coat and three small bunnies, clearly Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. The beach upon which the intrepid young man lands to find the Jabberwock is peopled with the March hare, dodo, and Cheshire cat, of Carroll's Wonderland, as well as a sand-carved bust of Queen Victoria. Sly wordplay is scattered throughout the book. A boat off in the ocean in the same scene is named "Liddle Women" and a tiny cottage is labeled "The Winkle in Thyme." Like Tripp's Granfa' Grigg Had a Pig (Little, Brown, 1976; o.p.) and Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet (Houghton, 1985; o.p.), this collection will appeal to lovers of both verbal and visual nonsense.
Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
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