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Hosie's Zoo (Viking; $10.95) is an equally eerie place, populated with recognizable creatures of the jungle, but transfigured by Leonard Baskin's violent line and shadowy backgrounds. Some of the descriptions, by Baskin's wife and children, are worthy of Ogden Nash: "The pygmy marmoset's minuscule lips/ Spew shrieking taunts, fierce orations and quips." Others are freighted with anthropomorphisms and archness. But Paterfamilias Leonard makes no mistakes in his rendering of tigers, camels, bighorn sheep, aardvarks and other forms of animal life: the creatures seem to have an existence beyond the page. Parents should...
Because when others broke the rules of prosody they produced vice and Ogden Nash produced verses...
...PENNY SAVED IS IMPOSSIBLE by Ogden Nash Little, Brown; 144 pages...
...alas, from Ogden Nash (1902- 1971) there will be no new item...
...trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT. -Ogden Nash...