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Title
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Averse to Beasts:Twenty-Three Reasonless Rhymes
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Written, Illustrated, and Read by Nick Bantock
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Creator
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Bantock, Nick
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Contributor
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Bantock, Nick
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:03:21Z
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1999-06
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1994
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:03:21Z
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Date Issued
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1994
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Abstract
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This book comes together with a tape, which presents the twenty-three poems well in a live performance (at The Trough no less!) with introductory comments and sound effects. Bantock is well known for the Griffin & Sabine series, and this book is worthy of him. There are perhaps four fables here. In Bad Manners, a turkey vulture schooled to culture still eats the waiter along with the meal! Harvest Mouse is something of an answer to Beatrix Potter, but it only reinforces the old fable wisdom that a mouse out in a field will be eaten by a hawk. The Warrior's Way is a satire on contemporary yuppie samurai. This one uses a sword to defeat a warrior-fly but cuts off his own nose in the process! Old School Ties has fun with allege and alligator but in the process shows--as I understand it--that judges might follow old school loyalties rather than process or evidence. One item (The Wolf at the Door) parodies WL in applying it to urban human wolves. The other pieces have fun with words (e.g., Hitch and Aero Dynamics), with shapes (e.g., Appendages), and with fantasies (e.g., Rabbit's Revenge). Each poem is done on a left-page with an illustration facing on the right-page. Among the best illustrations are Bad Manners, Thick Soup, Carnivorous, Appendages, Preparing My Giraffe for a Formal Occasion, and especially Harvest Mouse.
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Identifier
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0811807002
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4274 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Chronical Books
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San Francisco, CA
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Subject
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PR6052.A54 A94 1994
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Nick Bantock
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole