Descrizione
This book is sheer laughter from beginning to end as Barnabee and Annabee play with the English language. Their sharp imagination has enabled them to create original puns by seeing phrases in single words. For them, for example, "hippopotamus" is "on my hip the pot I must", "embargoes" is "Em goes into a bar" and General Custer's dying words were "Indigenous!" ("Injuns did us in!") But what was quite incredible is that they created an innovative literary genre called "the leitmotif vignette.