Walt Kelly, 1957, Pogo's Sunday Punch, Simon and Schuster. The book opens with a verse or two, followed by a story entitled War Nor Peace, which bears a striking resemblance to The Prince and the Pauper. Amid a plethora of silly stories Walt Kelly told over the years, this strikes me as one of the silliest. But then the original was pretty silly too. Next, a passel of nonsense verses, making slightly more sense than usual. The next tale, normally a story of two children lost in the woods who find a candy house, becomes something quite else in the hands of Albert Alligator. Then, a goodly quantity of nonsense verse. Next, we learn everything we need to know about Dr Owl's home dentistry kit. As soon as this is over with, Albert digs a gold mine. Churchy plans a trip to Mars and we meet Grundoon, the biting groundhog, for the first time.
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