Book cover of Arm in Arm: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and Other Echolalia

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A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year.


In Arm in Arm, Remy Charlip, the great children’s book author and illustrator,  is at his most playful, his zaniest, funniest, and cleverest.   He rewrites the rules of riddles, tongue twisters, puns, and performance-based play, or rather, throws all…

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1 author picked Arm in Arm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Oh, wow, this book is like a giant playground for the English language.

Every page is overloaded with jokes that literally go on forever, stories that end up right back where they started, puns and illusions, and poetic pretzel-knots, all illustrated with wild line-drawings and hippie-trippy 1960s colors.

I spent hours getting lost in this book as a child, and my kids loved it just as much as we giggled at the pages together.

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