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Summary: Loved it!!!!
Review: I came across this book at a small town library used book sale. I figured for a quarter, it was certainly worth a laugh. Then I got it home... What a great book!! If only I could have gotten my hands on something like this when I was growing up! I have shared it with all the people I know that seem to share the same mind set that I do. And of course, it has become a universal favorite with all of us! My edition is currently enjoying an around-the-world vacation as it is passed from friends to family and then back again! It's too bad that it is out of print, because every precocious child out there deserves the chance to read this!
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Summary: Thank God for Xerox
Review: I found my copy of this classic the year it was published ___ in the infant's book section of a Toledo department store. The book buyer hadn't yet cottoned on to just what the little gem was all about. [We did, however, read these "nursery rhymes" to all our kids .... and the neighbours' kids as well.The only author with a similar bent that comes to mind is Piet Hein. When books of this caliber go [and stay] out of print, all I can say is, "Thank the Good Lord for the gift of the photocopier!"
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Summary: Thank God for Xerox
Review: I found my copy of this classic the year it was published ___ in the infant's book section of a Toledo department store. The book buyer hadn't yet cottoned on to just what the little gem was all about. [We did, however, read these "nursery rhymes" to all our kids .... and the neighbours' kids as well. The only author with a similar bent that comes to mind is Piet Hein. When books of this caliber go [and stay] out of print, all I can say is, "Thank the Good Lord for the gift of the photocopier!"
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I grew up with this book, coloring in the margins before I could read. Still I delighted in the rhymes and later read them over and over. I now have a different copy of this wonderful collection of poems, but I treasure it as much as the original. If you can get ahold of a copy for yourself, you'll never let it go!
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Summary: Thank My Lucky Stars!
Review: I stumbled accross this book in the library of a high-school (when I was in about grade 10 -- not so long ago). A few years after I graduated, I realized I was smitten by the charmingly antiquated poems and I knew that I had to get a copy. I found some copies for sale on the internet, ranging up to $500.00 US for a copy! I even called rare book shops, and the nose-in-the-air shopkeeps had the nerve to scoff. I eventually got my friend to get his sister to bribe the librarian to get it for me. Who's laughing now? It is a first printing, and it was bought by the high-school in 1963 for $3.00! I read it at least once a month. I can't believe how little popularity this book has gained, considering the prescience of the writing. Oh well. I love it, and I share it with others who appreciate it: "Divide command and court disaster / Pollux says, and so says Castor" If you ever see a copy, snatch it up. It's valuable as a collector's item, but priceless as a memento.
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Summary: Thank My Lucky Stars!
Review: I stumbled accross this book in the library of a high-school (when I was in about grade 10 -- not so long ago). A few years after I graduated, I realized I was smitten by the charmingly antiquated poems and I knew that I had to get a copy. I found some copies for sale on the internet, ranging up to $500.00 US for a copy! I even called rare book shops, and the nose-in-the-air shopkeeps had the nerve to scoff. I eventually got my friend to get his sister to bribe the librarian to get it for me. Who's laughing now? It is a first printing, and it was bought by the high-school in 1963 for $3.00! I read it at least once a month. I can't believe how little popularity this book has gained, considering the prescience of the writing. Oh well. I love it, and I share it with others who appreciate it: "Divide command and court disaster / Pollux says, and so says Castor" If you ever see a copy, snatch it up. It's valuable as a collector's item, but priceless as a memento.
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Summary: One of my first books, and still one of my favorites
Review: I was born in 1952. This is the second book I remember having owning, after Dr Suess. I can't place the year exactly, but it was in the 50s.
I still have that first copy. I still read it. I enjoy it just as much or more now than I did way back when dinasoars roamed the earth.
Books don't come any better than this.
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Summary: Whimey and delight for children of the space age
Review: I'm another who was raised on Fredrick Winsor's delightful pastiche of old nursery verse, modern (well, 1950s) society, and science fictional ideas. I enjoyed them when young, and -- as with 1066 AND ALL THAT -- enjoyed them even more as I grew older and learned more of what the poems were talking about. This volumecomtains verses I cannot imagine living a full life without having read, from "Probable-Possible, My Black Hen" to "Spin Along in Spacial Night", and from "The Hydrogen Dog and the Cobalt Cat" to "The Theory that Jack Built" (a sicentific cautionary tale my father posted outside his professorial office for the edification of new graduate students).
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Summary: JATO! JATO! JATO!
Review: Indeed--I (and my sisters) grew up with this lovely little book of "scientific" rhyme and whimsy. We still treasure our dog-eared copy, long after the cover has separated from the binding. A delight for truly all ages.
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Summary: Whimsical Blend of Science Fiction and Nursery Rhyme
Review: My sister bought this book at a used book sale in Phoenix in the 70s, joined a cult, and left this book to me. She's never getting it back either! For those of you who love science fiction, science, poetry, languages and charming drawings, this is the book for you! I've shared it with my math and science fiction instructors at Arizona State, and they loved it. Where else would you get to read about the Little Black Hen in Greek and Swahili? The book expands one's imagination and obliterates any preconceptions that scientists are obtuse--in addition to knowing their specific sciences,these folks write poetry, draw, and are multilingual!
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