Figgie Hobbin
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| Figgie Hobbin | |
| Author | Charles Causley |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Pat Marriott |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's poetry |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Publication date | 1970 |
| Media type | hardback |
| ISBN | 0333120787 |
Figgie Hobbin: Poems for Children is a children's poetry collection written by English poet Charles Causley and first published in 1970. Since then it has gone through numerous reprints, including a notable version published in the U.S. in 1973, with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.
The poems' subjects are fairly evenly split; some contain gentle introspection, while others delight in random nonsense. The poem from which the book gets its title speaks of the old King of Cornwall, tempted with all sorts of exotic dishes, who petulantly tells his servants to take it all away and bring him what he really wants--a humble dish of figgie hobbin.
[edit] Poems
Note: the following poems are printed in the U.S. edition of the book. The U.K. edition may contain a slightly different collection of poems.
- I saw a jolly hunter
- A fox came into my garden
- 'Quack!' said the billy goat
- Colonel Fazackerley
- Tell me, tell me, Sarah Jane
- As I went down Zig Zag
- Logs of wood
- Old Mrs. Thing-um-e-bob
- King Foo Foo
- Riley
- At nine of the night I opened my door
- My mother saw a dancing bear
- Figgie Hobbin
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