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Yoto Says: Learn Runny Babbit talk with this hilarious collection of poems, packed full of stupendously silly spoonerisms.

From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit. 

Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms—words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit. 

Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all of their own. 

So if you say, "Let's bead a rook 

That's billy as can se," 

You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, 

Just like mim and he.

American English Accent

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Stella ★★★★★

My 6-year-old can't stop giggling at the spoonerisms on this card, and I've caught myself reading them out loud wrong on purpose. The poems are classic Shel Silverstein mischief, perfect for car rides.

Nicholas ★★★★★

I wasn't sure if spoonerisms would click with my seven-year-old, but the way these poems twist everyday words into silly sounds had him giggling through every track. The audio quality is clear and the pacing is just right for kids to follow along.

Natalie ★★★★★

My kids are absolutely roaring with laughter at the spoonerisms in these poems—they've started making up their own silly sentences at dinner. It's rare to find a single card that keeps them this engaged and giggling for a whole week.