I’m looking for a children’s book (probably published in the 70s/80s) that included various plays on words, with each sentence having a double meaning. For example, the blue prince for the house, vs. the blueprints for the house.
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Sounds like Fred Gwynne’s “The King Who Rained”, which featured a floating monarch with water cascading out of him. The book is full of similar visual puns, where Mother is playing bridge, letting people walk across her, or the Knight before Christmas, complete with armor and wreath, etc. He wrote a few others along this idea, “A Chocolate Moose For Dinner”, “The Sixteen Hand Horse”, “A Little Pigeon Toad”, all full of silly but clever images. Hope this helps.
That’s The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne (from TV’s The Munsters)! There are at least two sequels. He illustrated them too. BTW, the child narrator is a girl – I didn’t realize that as a kid, since her hair isn’t that long.
The King Who Rained, by Fred Gwynne.
Thanks to you all, this must be the right book! Hooray!