Rereading: COUNTRY COLIC by Robert Lawson

By 1944, Robert Lawson had already illustrated many books for children, and with this title he began writing them as well. The theme is humor, about the trials of living in the country and gardening amid all kinds of competition from insects and animals, and I suspect it was produced at the same time he was writing another better-known book about the animals of his Connecticut home, Rabbit Hill. This one is 70 pages with wonderful and funny illustrations on nearly every page, and it contains alphabetical entries from Airplanes (buzzing the house when the author was trying to sleep) to Zany (the author’s description of himself for loving his home despite all the complaints here). Along the way are entries on Ants; Beetles, Japanese;, Birds; Cows; Chickens; Dogs; Insurance; Lawns; Poison Ivy; Termites; Weeds and many more. Well worth reading if you can find it, and still funny.

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