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Word: hoptoad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theodore and the Talking Mushroom by Leo Lionni. Unpaged. Pantheon. $3.95. A mouse with an inferiority complex uses a mysterious mushroom for an Adlerian power play that fails. Leo Lionni is a well-known designer and ex-art director, whose collages, this time out, would scare a hoptoad. But anyone who figured that a talking mushroom would just naturally say "quirp" isn't to be lightly overlooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caboose Thoughts and Celebrities | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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