Edward Lear's The Scroobious Pip / completed by Ogden Nash ; illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
Literature of Delight. Nash completed this verse by Lear, brought fantastically into focus by the images in Burkert's generous, splendid paintings. Turn this over to young readers and ask them just what is the Pip. Or, what is he not?
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; Evanston ; London :
Harper & Row, Publishers,
[1968]
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| Summary: | Literature of Delight. Nash completed this verse by Lear, brought fantastically into focus by the images in Burkert's generous, splendid paintings. Turn this over to young readers and ask them just what is the Pip. Or, what is he not? In this verse by Edward Lear and completed by Ogden Nash, the Scroobious Pip visits various places while all the animals, birds, fish, and insects try to figure out what exactly he is. |
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| Item Description: | "The original unfinished text of The Scroobious Pip was first published in the United States in 1953 by Harvard University Press in a collection of Edward Lear's work entitled Teapots and Quails. Copyright 1953 by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd."--Verso title page. Baldwin Library copy signed by the illustrator. Lithography by Neff Lithographing Company, Inc. ; bound by A. Horowitz & Son. |
| Physical Description: | 25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm Also issued online. |
| ISBN: | 0064431320 9780064431323 |