Awards
- Winner of Beehive Awards (Poetry) 2003
- Winner of Bookseller's Choice (Special Subjects) 2002
- Winner of Colorado Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2004
- Winner of North Carolina Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2004
Overview
Remember... ""Take Me Out to the Ballgame"" and ""I've Been Working on the Railroad""? Songwriter and comedy writer extraordinaire Alan Katz has turned those and other old favorites on their ears and created new nonsense songs kids will love. With zany, spirited pictures by illustrator and cartoonist David Catrow, this kooky collection guarantees laughs and plenty of silly dillyness for kids everywhere!
Full Product Details
Author: Alan Katz ,
David Catrow
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Imprint: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Dimensions:
Width: 22.40cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 28.70cm
Weight: 0.426kg
ISBN: 9780689829031
ISBN 10: 0689829035
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 01 May 2001
Recommended Age: From 2 to 6 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
,
Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
Rosie O'DonnellAs a kid who grew up thinking Baby, baby, stick your head in gravy was the national anthem, I really like how Alan Katz and David Catrow have written and illustrated such funny songs! Kids of all ages are gonna love the new lyrics to their old favorite tunes. It doesn't get any silly dillier than this!
Rosie O'Donnell As a kid who grew up thinking ""Baby, baby, stick your head in gravy"" was the national anthem, I really like how Alan Katz and David Catrow have written and illustrated such funny songs! Kids of all ages are gonna love the new lyrics to their old favorite tunes. It doesn't get any silly dillier than this!
Author Information
Alan Katz has been a print and television comedy writer for more than twenty years. In addition to being a multiple Emmy nominee for his work on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Disney's Raw Toonage, he has written for children's programming on Nickelodeon, ABC Television, Warner Bros. Animation's Taz-Mania, and many others. Alan is the author of several adult humor books, humorous essays for The New York Times and other publications, and books for young readers. Alan lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his journalist wife, Rose, and their children Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David. Visit him online at AlanKatzBooks.com. David Catrow is the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as in nine hundred other newspapers. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.
