Smart Feller Fart Smeller: And Other Spoonerisms
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Smart Feller Fart Smeller: And Other Spoonerisms is a 2006 fiction book by Jon Agee.
and closes the book with translations of each punch line. There are 28 examples with black and white illustrations.
review says, "It's easy to imagine these precocious quips becoming part of a vocabulary ("That's a lack of pies!" a baker tells Pinocchio), and aficionados of this quiz would do well to read Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit, another boonerific spook." A Kirkus Reviews
review says, "His humor in these 28 examples is sometimes crude (see title, which answers, "What did the cowboy say to the rocket scientist?"), and, as in Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit (2005), the joke definitely wears thin--but readers of the target mentality may be tempted to rake the tall and bun with it." Kitty Flynn, of Horn Book Magazine
reviewed the book saying, "It makes you wonder: the next time someone calls you a “smart feller,” is that really what’s meant?"
Book information
The book is filled with spoonerisms that are formed as questions or answers. The book starts with a brief introduction about William Archibald SpoonerWilliam Archibald Spooner
William Archibald Spooner was a famous Oxford don whose name is given to the linguistic phenomenon of spoonerism.-Biography:...
and closes the book with translations of each punch line. There are 28 examples with black and white illustrations.
Reception
A Publishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly
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review says, "It's easy to imagine these precocious quips becoming part of a vocabulary ("That's a lack of pies!" a baker tells Pinocchio), and aficionados of this quiz would do well to read Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit, another boonerific spook." A Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus . Kirkus serves the book and literary trade sector, including libraries, publishers, literary and film agents, film and TV producers and booksellers. Kirkus Reviews is published on the first and 15th of each month...
review says, "His humor in these 28 examples is sometimes crude (see title, which answers, "What did the cowboy say to the rocket scientist?"), and, as in Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit (2005), the joke definitely wears thin--but readers of the target mentality may be tempted to rake the tall and bun with it." Kitty Flynn, of Horn Book Magazine
Horn Book Magazine
The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is a bimonthly periodical about literature for children and young adults. It began life as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field, proprietresses of the country's first bookstore for children, The...
reviewed the book saying, "It makes you wonder: the next time someone calls you a “smart feller,” is that really what’s meant?"