I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite

by Tomi Ungerer

Book Overview

"Bunny Bunson Brittle goes fishing. He has no permit. Who cares? There are no fish." That's the first of Papa Snap's favorite "no such" stories, and there are plenty more to come. Unabashedly silly and often delightfully dark, these tales feature a host of fanciful characters -- from young Arson Twitch, who runs away with the family bathtub, to Uncle Rimsky, who finds that a dragon is the perfect cigar lighter.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385306539
• ISBN13: 9780385306539
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

If i could give it more stars... I would.

As I child, I enjoyed the tales of Lido Rancid and Bunny Bunson Brittle. Now as an adult I've come to respect the creative genius that is Tomi Ungerer.These stories are way beyond their time. Ungerer combines childrens fairy tales with 60's psycheadilea.This is a must buy for the youth of today. In my generation it caused an almost cult following.Must buy!!!My copy's getting kinda battered.maybe i might buy a new on...

This Book Is A Wonderful Experience

Oh my, where to begin? Papa Snap. He is a saviour, my friends, a saviour for children. Never have I seen a book this clever, and silly, and never have I seen such witty characters or colourful, imaginative illustrations. Papa Snap has given me the power to live again. I ask you, where would you find the adventures of Mr Limpid and Mrs Lame? Where would you find little Arson Twitch, or keen fisherman Bunny Bunson Brittle? Nowhere, but in the creative mind of Tommy Ungerer which has been brought to life in "I Am Papa Snap, And These Are My Favorite No Such Stories". A wonderful experience for kids and adults alike, let Papa Snap run through your veins! Hail PSAS!

Quirky warm tales with a secular non-didactic morality

As a child of five fed these tales in the 70s, I loved them for their shortness, their weirdness, the quirky drawings and unexpected outcomes. As an adult I see it as a collection of fairy tales for children who don't grow up but reach their 30s knowing what a critical perspective is. If anybody can come up with anything more delicately miniature and heartwarming than the story of the Limpids well I take my hat off to them. But I won't sit on that sofa.