But 'Humpty Dumpty'! I was totally in tune with Mr. Zapple sounds an unusual sort of person and I can only express sympathy for his neighbour, Dieter, but oh! 'Sweet Cherry Pie'!! Actually perhaps I'd better not mention the cherry pie, it will only give kids ideas. However, within a minute a strange twitchy feeling wiggled through my nose and I heard the sound of giggling. After all, I'm the founder of the Bloomsbury slug sanctuary. Why oh why didn’t you write this thirty years ago!? What great memories this would have made! But oh well, I have it now! And I’ll read it again and again!! Elias Zapple, we all know you are as old as dirt, maybe even older. What fun kids will have after reading this book.
Some of this stuff will be repeated, talked and joked about by young boys and girls for a long time after reading it, especially the collection of mischievous takes on classic children stories and nursery rhymes toward the end of the book. In fact this would be wonderfully appropriate into the tween years. That being said, this book of rhymes by Elias Zapple, this wonderfully twisted, off the wall collection of weird to even weirder characters and stories written in some of the catchiest poetry I have read in a long time, this is genius! A modern classic! I just wish this was available when I was about oh, seven or eight years of age. When I was younger I devoured stuff by Charles Addams, Tim Burton and Roald Dahl. I’m a huge fan of the strange, odd, and macabre.
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