HURRY! DINNER IS AT SIX

by Ruth Leslie Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 25, 1969

It's half past five, Betsy. Dinner is at six. Pick up your books and things,"" says Mother. Betsy wishes for a magic picker-upper, but the red hen offers instead a visit to cousin Cockaroo, a Barnyard College student having a birthday party. She goes, then has several other encounters with animals (a few seem to derive from Alice) and in almost every one she insists that it's 5:30 and she has to be home by 6:00--a fatiguing refrain. The episodes are arbitrary, unrelated and unappetizing in their literalization of figurative speech (she pours a can of oil on stormy--i.e. troubled--waters) and the illustrations look stiff rather than zany. No magic picker-upper here--just pointless prattle.

Pub Date: March 25, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION