IF I RAN THE ZOO

Dumheiten at its loosest and Seussest in the lastest eagerly-hailed silliness by the master of inanities. "`But if I ran a zoo,' said young Gerald McGrew"...and a collection of splendiferous doohinkees parade across the pages as young McGrew travels to odd places, tempting his zoo creatures into nets and boxes. There is a lion with ten legs, a family of What do you -know (four placid white blobs in a pleased family group athwart a snowplow), a Thwerll (a mournful entity with legs criss-crossing and coiling like a road map), the Russian Palooski ("whose headski is redski and belly is blueski") — and so it goes while people cry: "What do you suppose he will capture this week!" The illustrations — some full page —are in three colors. It is true that some children do not take to unrelieved nonsense, and this book has little coordinated story —so feel out your readers and buyers. However, this will not disappoint the devoted.