Let's Have a Bite!: A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes

Let's Have a Bite!: A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes

by RobertForbes (Author)

Synopsis

With thirty-three delicious poems by Robert Forbes and zany illustrations of each featured creature (look out for a secret critter peeping out from each page) by a master cartoonist Ronald Searle, these wildly playful rhymes and charmingly intricate illustrations will keep readers seven to seventy coming back again and again.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 16 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 1590204093
ISBN 13: 9781590204092

Media Reviews
People often take a stab at children's books after reading Goodnight Moon to their own kids and becoming convinced they can do better. But Mr. Forbes hasn't read to his son Miguel in decades. Miguel is in his thirties. Miguel is Forbes's president of television and licensing. It seems Mr. Forbes simply has crazy rhymes going through his head. He'll wake up in the middle of the night, don his special Edward Beiner reading glasses with built-in reading lights, write for a couple of hours, roll over and go back to sleep. 'I write to amuse me, ' he said. 'I write stuff I'd like to read.' -- Wall Street Journal profile of Robert Forbes
Playful rhymes and charmingly intricate illustrations. -- Miami Herald
Chocolate bunnies, crying crocodiles, and fortune-telling seals star in Forbes and Searle's companion to 2007's Beastly Feasts! There's no shortage of offbeat characters (who become even more so in Searle's kinetic cartoons), including a color-changing emu, a wel
Author Bio
Robert Forbes serves as the Vice President of the Forbes family business as well as the President of the life style magazine Forbes Life.