Animals on the Ceiling

by Richard Armour, Paul Galdone (Illustrator)

Library Binding

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Becky Loader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a charming book! Don't we all want to see animals amongst the shapes on our ceilings?