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{{Infobox book
| name = A Book of Milliganimals
| image = File:ABookOfMilliganimals.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = [[Spike Milligan]]
| illustrator = [[Spike Milligan]]
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series =
| subject =
| genre = [[Children's literature]]
| publisher = Dobson Books Limited
| pub_date = 1968
| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages =
| isbn = 9780234770481
| oclc =
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'''''A Book of Milliganimals''''' is a [[children's book]] by [[Spike Milligan]], first published in 1968.<ref name="Milligan 1999">{{cite book | last=Milligan | first=S. | title=A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories & Poems | publisher=Ebury Publishing | year=1999 | isbn=978-1-85227-321-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mqv1QU6QEgC | accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="Milligan 2011 p. 248">{{cite book | last=Milligan | first=S. | title=Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts | publisher=Penguin Books Limited | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-670-92078-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UIBNTzdi6oC&pg=PT248 | accessdate=18 December 2016 | page=248}}</ref><ref name="Gale 1996 p. 767">{{cite book | last=Gale | first=S.H. | title=Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese | publisher=Garland | series=Garland reference library of the humanities | issue=v. 2 | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-8240-5990-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cSkSB13ZQcC&pg=PA767 | accessdate=18 December 2016 | page=767}}</ref>

The book has three parts; the first two, ''Animals'' and ''Milliganimals'', contain humorous poetry and illustrations by Milligan of animals, both real and imaginary.<ref name="Milligan 1999"/><ref name="Strong 2014">{{cite web | last=Strong | first=Jeremy | title=My inspiration: Jeremy Strong on Spike Milligan | website=the Guardian | date=16 June 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/jun/16/my-inspiration-jeremy-strong-spike-milligan | accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref> The third part, entitled ''The Bald Twit Lion'', is a surreal, comedic story of a lion who loses his mane and his struggle to re-grow it and overcome his embarrassment.<ref name="Milligan 1999"/> His mane is eventually restored by God, who slides down to Earth from Heaven on a religious giraffe's neck.

==References==
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*{{citation |title=Children's Books of the Year 1970 |year=1971 |publisher=[[Hamish Hamilton]] in association with the National Book League and the [[British Council]] |author=Elaine Moss |page=75}}

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