Fox in Socks

What do you know about tweetle beetles?

Is it ridiculous that I still have the copy of Fox in Socks my mother gave me when I was three?  Too bad.  Is it quaint that I still like to crack it open and remind myself how the tweetle beetles battle?  Don’t care.  This is the book that taught me the first rule of a good book: it should sound twice as good when you read it out loud.

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle …