Naughty Boy
:
A Song About Myself
John Keats
Illustrated by Grant Silverstein
While John Keats earnestly thought he might be "among the English poets," he also knew how to play with words. Full of whimsical rhymes and jolly rhythms, Naughty Boy: A Song About Myself pleases adults and children alike as the poet teases himself and teases the language.
Keats wrote Naughty Boy while on a visit to Scotland, feeling distant from his family in London, and sent it in a letter to his fifteen-year-old sister.
There was a naughty boy, / A naughty boy was he, / He would not stop at home, / He could not quiet be— / He took / In his knapsack / A book / Full of vowels / And a shirt / With some towels . . .
Born in 1953, Grant Silverstein is a self-taught artist currently living in Pennsylvania. He has exhibited widely in North America. For Paul Dry Books, he illustrated The Verb 'To Bird by Peter Cashwell (2003).
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