{"id":432,"date":"2009-04-03T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T03:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/review-of-orangutan-tongs-by-jon-agee\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:07:19","slug":"review-of-orangutan-tongs-by-jon-agee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Review of Orangutan Tongs, by Jon Agee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image431\" height=\"240\" alt=\"orangutan_tongs.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/orangutan_tongs.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Orangutan Tongs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Poems to Tangle Your Tongue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Jon Agee<\/p>\n<p>Disney\/Hyperion Books, 2009.\u00a0 48 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred review.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Standouts2010.html\">Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #2 Picture Books<\/p>\n<p>This book is entirely too much fun.\u00a0 I brought it home and read it to my teenage son, and, as I suspected, he couldn&#8217;t resist\u00a0trying it himself.\u00a0 For Dr. Seuss&#8217;s birthday, we recently had a tweetle beetle binge from <em>Fox in Socks<\/em>, so it was fun to read to each other and laugh from a new book where I didn&#8217;t have the advantage of about forty years of practice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Orangutan Tongs <\/em>(Can you resist saying that title aloud?) is a book of tongue twister poems, with illustrations.\u00a0 They are all quite silly and good for fun and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>My son <em>claimed <\/em>that he had not been practicing, but I found it highly suspicious that when I came home from work the next day, he was suddenly able to recite the Peggy Babcock poem:<\/p>\n<p><em>Peggy Babcock at work.\u00a0 Peggy Babcock at play.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peggy Babcock tomorrow.\u00a0 Peggy Babcock today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peggy Babcock, repeated, is tricky to say:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, ole!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1423103157\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orangutan Tongs Poems to Tangle Your Tongue by Jon Agee Disney\/Hyperion Books, 2009.\u00a0 48 pages. Starred review. Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #2 Picture Books This book is entirely too much fun.\u00a0 I brought it home and read it to my teenage son, and, as I suspected, he couldn&#8217;t resist\u00a0trying it himself.\u00a0 For Dr. Seuss&#8217;s birthday, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,28,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review","category-poetry","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}