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Agee, Jon

Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!: More Palindromes

80 pp. | Farrar | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-31808-5 $$14.41

(2) 4-6 "No lemons, no melon!" shouts a fruitseller whose cart is almost fully stocked. A drawing of a man nervously approaching an ice cream sundae is captioned "Desserts stress Ed." This volume collects more than sixty palindromes and displays them in witty cartoon drawings, notable for their off-center deadpan humor. Most of the entries will have readers chuckling aloud and trying to concoct their own palindromes.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999