From The Window Seat
(Erik P. Kraft)
I do a lot of squawking when it comes to rhyming in picture books. People all too frequently just don''t know what they''re doing and end up unleashing poetic monstrosities on poor, unsuspecting children. However, I''m more than willing to admit (and frankly, overjoyed) when somebody gets it right. Timothy Tunny is a little different, since it''s a collection of poems rather than a rhyming story, but it can easily take its place on the shelf next to a book like Where the Sidewalk Ends. Each poem is about a different hysterical character, each with his/her own wonderful eccentricities. Obviously, there''s Timothy Tunny, the bunny-swallower of the title, but there''s also the man who insists he doesn''t exist, who uses his trait to covort in the mud ("I''m glad I''m not here," / He says, "for I fear / If I were I''d be covered with crud."), Kevin T. Moses with his 17 noses (Kevin T. Moses / Has seventeen noses, / Each birthday he grows a new nose), and a host of others, all completely delightful to read. As funny as each poem is, amazingly Kevin Hawkes'' illustrations manage to take the humor even farther. My favorite is his painting of the woman in town who is afraid that she''ll drown. Grossman hits us with a poem about a woman so afraid of drowning that she affixes a small scuba suit to her nose. Hawkes then does him one better by showing us the woman sitting in a boat in the middle of the desert. Fantastic.
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