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Available
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Publication
Harper & Row (1987), Edition: 1st Edition
Description
Nash completed this verse by Lear, brought fantastically into focus by the images in Burkert's generous, splendid paintings. Turn this over to young readers and ask them just what is the Pip. Or, what is he not?
User reviews
LibraryThing member MrsLee
This was given to me when I was six. One of the first books I read by myself, I loved it. The flow and the humor of the words are wonderful, but the illustrations add so much to the story. I could sit and examine them for hours.
LibraryThing member fdholt
Edward Lear’s The Scroobious Pip” is about a most unusual animal. The rest of the animals just couldn’t figure out what he was: beast bird, fish or insect. And the pip insists that “My only name is the Scroobious pip!” over and over. The animals finally agree that the pip is all the
My son loved the nonsense verse and the use of made-up words like chippetty, flippetty, and pliffity along with all the animals mentioned as well as the wonderful illustrations. Adults are equally charmed!
Nancy Ekholm Burkert illustrated the book, using a drawing by Lear for the Pip. In her forward, she also mentions that the poem was unfinished and Ogden Nash, no stranger to nonsense verse, finished the poem. His additions are clearly marked in my edition of the poem.
Lewis Carroll and “Jabberwocky” may be more famous but Lear’s Pip is just as charming a read.
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above.My son loved the nonsense verse and the use of made-up words like chippetty, flippetty, and pliffity along with all the animals mentioned as well as the wonderful illustrations. Adults are equally charmed!
Nancy Ekholm Burkert illustrated the book, using a drawing by Lear for the Pip. In her forward, she also mentions that the poem was unfinished and Ogden Nash, no stranger to nonsense verse, finished the poem. His additions are clearly marked in my edition of the poem.
Lewis Carroll and “Jabberwocky” may be more famous but Lear’s Pip is just as charming a read.
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Awards
IBBY Honour Book (2012)
Language
Original language
English