Condensed Animals

Spike Milligan wrote this book for all readers who do not like rambling poems-though if you want a long rambling poem he says you can read the whole book in one go. It consists of 109 meditations on animals, each of which, in a few lines of minimalist spareness, expresses a thoroughly silly sentiment on the creature in question: Bluebottle bluebottle You're a fly I'd like to throttle Always landing on my food Goodness gracious you're so rude! Highly enjoyable, and if only it were given the big book treatment it would provide splendid first reading experience for beginners.