Sweet Singer News Today

From the blog of David Walk at The Times of Israel

“Rare food for a lunatic” ... “a thing that happens once in a million years” ... “Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead.”

The book, which features cats dressed up and placed in funny settings, was intended to educate children with vocabulary and entertaining rhymes.

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