Kennedy (Drat These Brats! 1993, etc.) and O'Brien (illustrator of Steve Graham's Dear Old Donegal, 1996, etc.) do the...

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UNCLE SWITCH: Loony Limericks

Kennedy (Drat These Brats! 1993, etc.) and O'Brien (illustrator of Steve Graham's Dear Old Donegal, 1996, etc.) do the limerick proud in this screwball collection. True to his name, Uncle Switch turns the tables on almost everything: He reads his eggs while frying up the morning paper, ticks and tocks as his clock sits easy in his chair, gets hooked by a fishing fish, bites mosquitoes, ""snaps photographs/Of his camera to send to its folks."" In the tradition of the finest limericks, these feel casually tossed off: ""The most beautiful music I know/Is what Uncle makes, solemn and slow,/When a big violin/Tucks him under its chin/And then scrapes his bare chest with a bow."" The action is nimble and the situations proudly absurd: Red apples on the ground spring back to the branch and turn green. The ink-and-watercolor illustrations are more than equal to the verse, colorfully eccentric and full of wild imagery.

Pub Date: April 1, 1997

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 32

Publisher: McElderry

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 1997

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