Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
by
Shel Silverstein
performed by Dennis Locorriere
children's poetry audiobook
It's giggly fun for the whole family! This is an audiobook version of the book of poems which feature Runny Babbit. Each silly poem about nursery rhymes and animals features mixed up words. Silverstein inverts the first letters of phrases like runny babbit/bunny rabbit. It is so simple, yet so funny! It is like another version of pig Latin or Spoonerisms.
If you are brave, you will try to read these poems aloud yourself. Your brain will probably attempt to CORRECT the words! Have fun with a classroom or a teammate as you try to say the words the wrong way - I mean the right way that is the wrong way - I mean...
I don't know how Dennis Locorriere managed to read this whole book correctly. I wonder how many takes it took to get it right for the audio publication?
The back cover quotes Maurice Sendak who said "I wish I had done this book!"
We were reminded of the humor in "The Hungry Thing" and the sequel, "The Hungry Thing Returns". Now I and two children will be saying "runny babbit" and "flamburgers and sneeze" for an inside joke. (You are now on the inside as well, since you now know where these phrases originated).
I will probably have to check this audiobook out again later this year to have a laugh on a car ride.
