One Winter Night in August, and Other Nonsense Jingles

by X.J. Kennedy

Book Overview

More than fifty nonsense rhymes about a people-eating giant snail, exploding gravy, a witch, a dragon, and other topics. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068950022X
• ISBN13: 9780689500220
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

My Cocoa Skin Coat

Kennedy's first book of poems for kids was a hilarious journey into pure nonsense, all done in deft rhyme and meter. Kids are sure to like the pure unsentimental whimsy of these imaginative rhymes and the absurd characters they conjure. There hasn't been such unabashed craziness since Dr. Seuss. Noted illustrator David McPhail (of "Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore" fame) adds finely wrought black-and-white pen drawings.