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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a town of animals that speak a total different way. They switch the first letters of every word they say!This book was wriiten by Shel Silverstein about a young rabbit with a big imagination who everyone makes fun of.<br/><br/> This book was one of the WORST books I''ve evr read.I pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76748982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My 8 y.o. niece could NOT stop laughing at the poems in this book. Her favorite part (so far) is the end pages that have the drawings and list of Runny Babbit's friends, like Toe Jurtle, Goctor Doose, and Polly Dorkupine. Over the next few days, she was re-reading the poems then trying to speak Runn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81752180">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is full of poems and different little things. I would not recommend this to younger children, becuase it is only going to confuse them even more than what they already are. It was hard for me to read, becuase the words are all mixed around, but after awhile it grows on the reader and becom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54450401">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do home daycare and own an incredible amount of children's books.  I am also a Shel Silverstein fan, as are the children.  However, this book was difficult to read (like the worst tongue twister ever)and hard to understand.  Not one child I have met likes this book.  His other works are much, much...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50908013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. I was so excited when I started reading it.<br/>It kinda reminds me of pig latin, but wasnt so confusing.<br/><br/>It isnt so much the stories in the book, it is the theory that he mixed up all the words and published it.<br/><br/>Here are excerpts from his book.<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html" title="http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html">http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite...</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38280701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author: Shel Silverstein<br/><br/>Illustrator: Shel Silverstein<br/><br/>Genre: Fiction Poetry Picture Book<br/><br/>Reading Level: Late Transitional because of the switching of letters<br/><br/>Curriculum Uses: Read Aloud, Paired Reading, Individual Reading<br/><br/>Issues Addressed: I ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44900472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Taken in <em>dall smoses</em>, this self-proclaimed &quot;billy sook&quot; is a fun-filled new (posthumously published) offering from children's poet Shel Silverstein, creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, and other favorites. Completed prior to the poet's death in 1999, <em>Runny Babbit</em> was a work in progress for more than 20 years, and is populated by the likes of Runny Babbit, Toe Jurtle, Ploppy Sig, Polly Dorkupine, and Pilly Belican (who owns the Sharber Bop), all denizens of the green woods where letter-flipping runs rampant. In this madcap world, pea soup is sea poup, Capture the Flag is Fapture the Clag, and snow boots are bow snoots. Each poem incorporates the same kind of switcheroo wordplay found in &quot;Runny's Hew Nobby:&quot; Runny Babbit knearned to lit,/ And made a swat and heater,/ And now he sadly will admit/ He bight have done it <em>metter.</em>&quot; (Here, in one of many winningly simple line drawings, R. B. sits knitting one very long sleeve, which is labeled as such.) Children who have some fluency in reading will enjoy this bonsensical nook the most. (Ages 7 to 12) <em>--Karin Snelson</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really hard book to read cause it is hard to say the words the way they are written and I had to really slow down to get them right. I think this one is geared more toward older children and adults. I LOVE Shel Silverstein and am trying to collect all his books.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is just one of those silly little children books that Shel Silverstein writes.  This book is full of short little poems with a twist; he switches around every two words' 1st letters (consonants.)  That's why this bookk is called &quot;Runny Babbit,&quot; not &quot;Bunny Rabbit.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Runny Babbit lent to wunch<br/> And heard the saitress way,<br/> &quot;We have some lovely stabbit rew --<br/> Our Special for today.&quot;</p> <p>From the legendary creator of <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em>, <em>A Light in the Attic</em>, <em>Falling Up</em>, and <em>The Giving Tree</em> comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So if you say, &quot;Let's bead a rook<br/> That's billy as can se,&quot;<br/> You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,<br/> Just like mim and he.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Individual poems written about Runny Babbit (Bunny Rabbit) and his adventures.  A wonderful book, one that I think might just be more fun for adults than children.  It's especially wonderful if you read it aloud, like I did, sitting on a deck with your dog at your feet.  <br/><br/>So you get the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60528713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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