THE NICKLE NACKLE TREE

by Lynley Dodd ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 20, 1978

Mounting up from ""One Ballyhoo bird, kicking up a din"" to ""Fourteen pink fandango birds dancing in the sun,"" the feathered population with which Dodd overloads her Nickle Nackle tree includes such alliterated inventions as ""Seven haughty Huff puff birds with hoity-toity smiles"" and ""Eight cheeky Chizzle birds in cheerful chirpy piles."" While they don't evoke any strikingly funny or original images, such phrases could serve as starting points for flights of visual nuttiness. But, alas, Dodd's pictures are stock commercial cartoons, ranging downwards from a derivative buzzard type (for ""four lurking Yuk birds"") to a number of less interesting cookie-cutter shapes.

Pub Date: Feb. 20, 1978

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1978

Categories: CHILDREN'S