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Runny Babbit : a billy sook / by Shel Silverstein.

Silverstein, Shel, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

Runny Babbit lent to wunch and heard the saitress way, "We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today." From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. 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. So if you say, "Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se," You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, Just like mim and he.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060284048
  • ISBN: 9780060284046
  • ISBN: 0060256532
  • ISBN: 9780060256531
  • ISBN: 0439812313
  • ISBN: 9780439812313
  • ISBN: 9780061130472
  • ISBN: 0061130478
  • Physical Description: 89 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2005]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Completed prior to Shel's death in 1999, this was a work in progress for over twenty years."--Title page verso.
Includes drawings by the author.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
And-baid problem -- Bittle laby for runny -- Calley at's kittle litten -- Do whid it? -- Funny bamily -- He thought it meant "dit sown" -- His kajesty, the ming -- Killy the Bid -- Kugs and hisses -- Kungle jing -- Ploppy sig reans his cloom -- Runny and Dankee -- Runny and Dungry -- Runny and the pig barade -- Runny and the Sea poup -- Runny and the skancin' dunk -- Runny and the worty finks -- Runny bakes a tath -- Runny cooks for Linderella -- Runny heeds fimself -- Runny hets gandsome -- Runny huts his own cair -- Runny loes to gunch -- Runny mets guddy -- Runny on Rount Mushmore -- Runny shearns to lare -- Runny stets gretched -- Runny the ficken charmer -- Runny's bight toots -- Runny's brig beakfast -- Runny's cat and hoat -- Runny's garty pames -- Runny's hand-new brat -- Runny's heading rabits -- Runny's hew nobby -- Runny's hind keart -- Runny's jig bump -- Runny's mancy feal -- Runny's nicpic -- Runny's rig bomance -- Runny's rittle leminders -- Way down in the green woods.
Target Audience Note:
NP Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 0.5 86634.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.2 0.5 SD Quiz 86634 English fiction.
Awards Note:
Quill Children's Illustrated Book Award, 2005.
Subject: Rabbits > Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Spoonerisms > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Spoonerisms.
Poetry.

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