Books with title The Three Sillies

There’s such chaos on the lagoon when a loon, a baboon, and a raccoon have trouble getting along with each other. Then these three sillies find that they also have a problem with other wildlife, including a herd of cows and a school of moorish idols. It takes a clever butterfly to help them see the foolishness of their ways.This children’s picture book is part of the wonderful collection of children’s books by Sally Huss.

Under the dim light of the moon a loon, a baboon, and a raccoon Stood drinking at the edge of a lagoon. "Ooooh," said the loon, "I don't have enough room." The baboon and the raccoon moved over. Pretty soon..."Ooooh," said the baboon, "I don't have enough room." So the loon and the raccoon moved further. A delightfully silly rhyming book about having the right attitude and getting along with each other. This children’s picture book is part of the wonderful collection of children’s books by Sally Huss.

"Hold your horsepower," said the little man with a stamp, a stomp, and a snort. "This is a troll bridge. I'm the Troll. Now, start passing the buck." Bill Bob, Billy Bo, and Just Plain Billy don't have enough money to cross the troll bridge. But by pooling their pennies with the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack, the Three SIlly Billies are able to pay the toll and cross the deep river in jolly good style. And there's a whopping surprise in store for the Troll! As in Earthquack!, Margie Palatini and Barry Moser combine their talents to create an inventive new version of a favorite folktale.

Inspired by an 1890s folktale, THE THREE SILLIES has been reinvented by popular author-artist Steven Kellogg as a deliriously outrageous comedy.Once upon a time, a gentleman set out to court a farmer's daughter. But, as this gentleman soon discovers, the farmer, his wife, and their daughter are all hopelessly silly. The three of them cry a roomful of tears one day, all because they start a-thinking that the gentleman and the daughter may get married and have a baby boy, and that boy might one day be donked on the head by a falling mallet. Indeed, the gentleman is flabbergasted by their silliness. "I shall set out traveling," he announces, "and when I can find three sillies who are even sillier than you three, I¹ll come back and marry your daughter." Could three sillier sillies exist in all the land? Will the gentleman find them? Is it possible that the gentleman himself is the sillier silly he seeks?

First (thus?) edition, 1986, first printing, SIGNED by the author with a cartoon of a pig beneath at the bottom of the half title page, an otherwise like-new hardcover with prior owner school info stamped on the inside front cover, without a dust jacket, from HBJ. Retold and illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt. Unpaginated, approx. 9" X 10" X 1/4". ISBN 0-15-332957-2 bottom of back cover.