About this item
A playful easy reader in the tradition of Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop that teaches the basics of word construction.From award-winning humorist Christopher Cerf comes a super-simple, delightfully silly Beginner Book in which the rhymed text and the position of the words on the page teach the basics of word construction. Written in the style of Dr. Seuss's classic Hop on Pop with rhyming words placed directly above each other to show their shared construction, A Skunk in My Bunk! combines phonics and word recognition to make learning to read easy--and fun! With bright, charming illustrations by Nicola Slater, kids will be delighted to read for themselves about a goat in a coat in a boat in a moat, a pig in a wig dancing a jig, a skunk in a bunk, and much, much more!Launched in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat and written specifically for emergent readers, Beginner Books combine an exacting blend of simple words and fun pictures that encourage children to read--all by themselves.
About the Author
Christopher Cerf is an author, record and TV producer, composer-lyricist, semi-bestselling humorist, and co-founder and president of the educational media production company, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., where he co-created and served as Co-Executive Producer of the multiple award-winning children's literacy show, "Between the Lions," which recently completed its 10th season on PBS.Cerf has won three Emmys and two Grammys for his musical contributions to "Sesame Street" (for which he has written over 300 songs since the show's debut in 1970) ; was a senior editor at Random House, where he worked with such diverse authors as George Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Abbie Hoffman, and Dr. Seuss; and was a charter contributing editor of National Lampoon. He has also won two Emmys for outstanding writing in children's television. In 2010, Cerf was awarded the Harold W. McGraw Prize for his contributions to American education.For all his success in TV, music, and publishing, Christopher Cerf is perhaps best known for his work as an author and satirist. He co-edited "The Politically Correct Dictionary" (with Henry Beard) and "The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation" (with Victor Navasky) , and in 2008, he and Navasky collaborated again to produce "Mission Accomplished!," a bestselling compendium of misstatements, failed predictions, and outright lies uttered in connection with America's military adventure in Iraq.In November 2012, Simon & Schuster published Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard's "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca" -- a comprehensive field guide to things you absolutely, positively must not eat, drink, wear, take, grow, make, buy, use, or do. including an awful lot of toxic, lethal, horrible stuff that you thought was safe, good, or healthy. Painstakingly researched, and alphabetized for easy reference, this book just might save your life. (Cerf and Beard apologize in advance if it doesn't.) In June 2015, a new Cerf-Beard collaboration, "Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deceptive Language," will be published by Blue Rider Press. The authors promise it will teach readers how to succeed in business (and politics and everything else) without really lying.
