Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

By Shel Silverstein

7 ratings 11 reviews 14 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grade 5n/a4.22261

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: Runny Babbit.

Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms—words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit.

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.

And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, coming in fall 2017!

Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-13: 9780060256531
ISBN-10: 0060256532
Published on 1/6/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96

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I liked this book because every word is the opposite of the other. For example, Runny Babbit should be Bunny Rabbit. Almost the whole book is written like that. Hard to read but funny once you understand it.