Hello scheise-ga,
The book is called "Professor Wormbog in Search for the
Zipperump-A-Zoo", by Mercer Mayer. Here is a description of the book:
"Professor Wormbog had every beastie in his collection except one
(Mayer, 1976). He had everything from A to Y: an askingforit, a
blowfat-glowfish, a croonie, a diddly-dee, an errg, a fydolagump, and
everything else up to the yalapappus. But he lacked the crucial Z:
the zipperump-a-zoo.
He therefore set out to find the missing zipperump-a-zoo, and looked
everywhere, including the most exotic places in the world. But the
zipperump-a-zoo eluded him. Finally he gave up, came back home, and
went to sleep, exhausted. As soon as he fell asleep, a whole tribe of
zipperump-a-zoo emerged to party, right in his house. They had been
there all the time, hiding."
"Half a career spent trying to find the right questions to ask about
the nature of human intelligence : In search of the zipperump-a-zoo",
by Robert J. Sternberg (delivered Dec. 1999, published May 2000 in The
Psychologist) [quote on page 1, citation of the book on page 6]
The British Psychological Society
http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/thepsychologist/psy_05_00_p250-255_sternbe.pdf
It is still in print, available for instance from Amazon.com in
hardcover or paperback.
"All 2 results for : Professor Wormbog in Search for the
Zipperump-a-Zoo"
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-titleid=1279531&ve-field=none/qid=/103-7617994-3958268
Or you can presumably find it in a nearby library.
I hope that this information is helpful.
- justaskcott-ga
Search terms used on Google:
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