Silly Sally Red Wagon Books
Dance a jig with a ludicrous pig. Play leapfrog with a absurd dog. And that’s just the beginning of all the fun! Come along and join Silly Sally and her outrageous friends as they parade into town in a most strange way.
From School Library JournalPreSchool-K– Watercolor cartoons illustrate this bit of cumulative nonsense. “Silly Sally went to town,/ walking backwards, upside down./ On the way she met a pig,/a foolish pig,/they danced a jig.” Sally and pig (upside down) meet and are joined in their walk by a dog, a bird, a sheep and (ta-dum!) Neddy Buttercup, who sets everything to rights. However, Silly Sally manages to get them all in formation whereupon they proceed to town following her roundabout lead. Bright double-page spreads carry the tale, divination each encounter. Sally, with orange corkscrew hair, a mischievous grin, and wearing ruffled pantaloons underneath her purple frock, appears to be competent to coerce ‘most any person into ‘most anything, and soon has the townspeople walking backwards, upside down. No moral, no underlying theme, no real story–just unabashed silliness. –Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, NE
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus ReviewsThe characters in Wood’s sunny, simple pen and watercolor illustrations somewhat bounce off the page in this exuberant cumulative rhyme. Bloomers-topmost, Silly Sally goes to town “walking backwards, upside down”; along the way, she meets a foolish pig, a absurd dog, a absurd loon, and a ludicrous sheep–until, finally, Neddy Buttercup (“walking forwards, right side up”) comes along and manages to get the whole crew into town in a frenzy of tickles, grins, and flying limbs. A surefire read-aloud. (Picture book. 3-7) — Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
About the Author AUDREY WOOD is the much-loved author of more than thirty books for children, including the bestselling The Napping House, Piggies, Heckedy Peg, and most recently, Piggy Pie Po, which she collaborated on with her husband, Don Wood. She lives in Hawaii.
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19 of 20 persons found the following review helpful.
 Silly Sally
By Jelsomina Elsasser
The book is cute and short. Is regarding absurd Sally who goes to town walking backwards upsidedown. On her way she meets various animals and Neddy Buttercup who joined her on her way to town. I read this book to my second graders, and afterwards did a lesson on rhythming words,since the story is told in rhythming verses. I also employed to book to instruct them order, for example who followed Sally firstborn and second and so on. The children loved the illustrations and the fact that they were competent to read.
13 of 13 humans found the following review helpful.
‘Silly Sally’ is a TERRIFIC read-aloud book
By Durling Heath
“It’s fun and okay to be silly,” is the message that ‘Silly Sally’ offers to it is young audience. And what more does a two or three-year old want to do than be silly?
Both written and brightly illustrated with watercolors by Audrey Wood, ‘Silly Sally’ is the story, or perhaps more of a poem or a song, of Silly Sally herself who “went to town, walking backwards, upside down.” On her journey, Silly Sally meets a pig, a dog, a loon, a sheep, before encountering her evenly absurd friend, Neddy Buttercup. All of Silly Sally’s friends are just as silly, bright, and fun as she is. Upon reaching her destination, the persons of the town represented in the last two illustrations are very happy and excessively affected emotionally to see that Silly Sally and her entourage have arrived.
‘Silly Sally’ is a TERRIFIC read-aloud book that young children want to listen over and over again. The message, if there in fact is a message, is that it’s just fine to be yourself, foolish or otherwise. The quality of the board book edition is good, and weathers hand-downs from one child to the next very well.
11 of 12 persons found the following review helpful.
 Just outstanding silliness
By M. Tomson
This is just a cute, fun book when it comes to being silly. My 2 year old loves this book and laughs at the pictures. It’s a nice light read, no preaching, with ridiculous pictures. Definately commend it.
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