Since everyone has (or should have) politics on the brain today (VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!) I thought I’d go the completely opposite route, topic-wise, and serve up some short, sweet humor, in the form of one really silly sentence that will remain silly no matter who’s in the White House. 

This silly sentence comes from the delightfully ridiculous chapter book Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots (Putnam, February 2008) by Daren King, who also authored the delightfully ridiculous chapter book Mouse Noses on Toast. Both ought to draw giggles and occasional snorts of laughter from the silliest set (say, first to third grade and/or overtired booksellers).

I’m reprinting two sentences from Sensible Hare below. The wonderfully silly sentence is (in my opinion) the second one. The Ottoman mentioned below is an otter who lives in a cupboard at the back of Sensible Hare’s office.

Ottoman shared the cupboard with a spiderweb and a thimble that he had decorated with a price ticket and two dabs of paint. He had named the thimble Thimble, after his grandma, Thimble Otter, who had been named after a thimble.

On that ridiculous note, go vote.