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Title: One I grew up with - and still love
Review: "Blum" "Blum is a word ..." I cannot hear the title of this book without having the poem "Blum" come to mind. This is not because it is the best poem in the anthology - rather it is because I have not found the poem elsewhere.This is a delightful collection of humorous verse that is child-oriented without dumbing-down to some low-life expectation of children's appreciation for verse. It recognizes a child's sense of poetic rhythm without sliding into sing-song verses.In short, this collection edited by Ogden Nash has all the qualities you expect in his own work... absolutely delightful ... with illustrations nearly as delightful as the poems.An example I can quote 40 years later: Germans live in Germany / Romans live in Rome / Turks live in Turkey / But English live at home.
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