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How to tell the Birds from the Flowers - Revised
Robert Williams Wood
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How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!
How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!
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By other Nature books I'm sure,
You've often been misled,
You've tried a wall-flower to secure.
And "picked a hen" instead:
You've wondered what the egg-plants lay,
And why the chestnut's burred,
And if the hop-vine hops away,
It's perfectly absurd.
I hence submit for your inspection,
This very new and choice collection,
Of flowers on Storks, and Phlox of birds,
With some explanatory words.
Not every one is always able
To recognize a vegetable,
[pg v]
For some are guided by tradition,
While others use their intuition,
And even I make no pre. . . Read More
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A joy to read! Witty and cute.
No illustrations!
The actual book accompanies each poem with an excellent and very amusing woodcut, which the ebook version leaves out!
It's like the icing without the cake. What's the point?
A charming little book full of witty wordplay, self-referential humor, and a few tongue-twisters. (In an added geeky twist (unsurprising coming from a theoretical physicist), even a footnote on Greek etymology is in rhyme.)
As his daughter writes in her 1958 introduction, "Here, dear Reader, is the t
So, people of the olden times could be funny. Who knew?!
A quirky little book, I dipped in and out of it over the last few days. This is the sort of book that would get you in trouble at school, to make the poems rhyme the words sometimes get manipulated to sound how the poet wants them. For example Peculiar becomes P-Q-Liar.
Favourite comparison was the P
Inventive and lovely.