In the Swump of Greedge beyond Long Thin Lake live a pair of swumpogglers always awake. Of beaks each has two. They use them, it’s true, to sing 4-part harmony pretty as cake.
O bliss, O joy, O happy day, the vedling cart wed the bale of hay! O mip, O mop, O most sublime, the barn door wept at the bell’s first chime. The bell was happy, the barn door sad, and the cart and the hay were gladder than glad. O clip, O clop, O there’s […]
What a handsome wizard is Billow Splash with pale blue eyes so long of lash. Maidens galore fall on the floor whenever he offers to take out the trash.
Today is the birthday of Wanda Gag. Did you know her last name rhymes with frog? She built this book. Have you read it? It’s all about cats. There, I’ve said it.
Arthur Rackham illustrated many and many a tale. Here are Hansel and Gretel meeting a certain witch who dwells in a certain tasty cottage deep in a certain wood. The book is The Annotated Brothers Grimm. I happen to know that the witch there is in disguise. She is really from the planet Boad, and […]
