Squeeze a Sneeze

by Bill Morrison

Suggests putting words together into funny rhymes such as "Bake a cake for your favorite snake."

Genres: Humor, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1977

About the author

Comic book artist and writer, and co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance). He currently serves as creative director of Bongo Comics.

Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver community situated south of Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies.

Morrison is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America; he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010.

At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. in Livonia, Michigan, before going to work as an illustrator for Disney. Then he worked as an illustrator for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He served as director for Futurama.

Reviews

[Edward Sojuwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book rocks with rhyming schemes that make Roald Dahl go up a Wall, and Dr Seuss get bent up and loose! A man in an orange hat and coat invites readers on a journey of poetry and improv, where you are encouraged to rhyme different words in different ways, just in case you get bored. Hell, that's how Tupac got his start, and LL Cool J, and the Ices: Ice T, Ice Cube and Vanilla Ice. Orange Guy starts us off with "Can you Squeeze a Sneeze, Sail with a Snail in a Pail, or Find a Bug in a Rug and Give him a Big Hug?" (One, two, three, say AWWWW!) Orange Guy is like Willy Wonka, only minus the murderous intent. I mean, ORANGE YOU GLAD you might like this book???
Four stars
Orange Guy Rules with Rhyming Tools!!!

[Tynisha Thompkins]

Uses funny ryhming words!!