identify that children's book, hoochkerpoochkerplinkerplong edition

March 10, 2019 9:49 AM

Ages ago, I had a children's book that was bought in England in the 1970s. It was a slim but large hardback (maybe 9x12 inches), an anthology of colorful illustrated stories probably by multiple artists. It had retellings of fairy tales (I only remember Rapunzel) and other stuff, like a short poem about a very long wiener dog with lots of legs like a caterpillar: The Hoochkerpoochkerplinkerplong / is very, very, very long - or something like that. Do you recognize this book or this dog?
posted by moonmilk to Media & Arts (1 answer total)

The dog poem sounds like something Spike Milligan might have written.
posted by monotreme at 11:44 AM on March 10, 2019