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

Forbes, Robert L.; Illustrated By Ronald Searle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715639846 ISBN 13: 9780715639849

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd; Overlook Duckworth, 2010

Synopsis

If you haven't heard, the whole animal kingdom is roaring its approval for "Let's Have A Bite!", this collection of delectable rhymes about animals naughty and nice. 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. Naughty lion cubs, chocolate bunnies, monkeys, idle pandas, a buffalo named Biff, lemurs, guinea pigs, cats, dogs, and even an inchworm named Sprint feature in this timeless collection.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Forbes serves as a company Vice President as well as President of the lifestyle magazine ForbesLife. After 25 years in New York City and six in London, he and his wife currently reside in Florida. His other two books of poetry for children, Beastly Feasts! and Let's Have a Bite!, were also illustrated by Ronald Searle.

Review:

"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 well-dressed narwhal ('In the summer he needs no topper--/ His groovy shades are a real show-stopper'), and a photogenic buffalo."-- Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd; Overlook Duckworth
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0715639846
• ISBN 13: 9780715639849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Ronald Searle