Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: and Other Poems
What do you get when you cross . . . A toaster with a toad?A tuba with a baboon?A clock with an octopus?A hat with a chicken?An umbrella with an elephant?Why . . . A Pop-up ToadsterA TubaboonThe ClocktopusA Hatchicken and . . .The Bold UmbrellaphantAnd what do you get when you cross this book...
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What do you get when you cross . . . A toaster with a toad?A tuba with a baboon?A clock with an octopus?A hat with a chicken?An umbrella with an elephant?Why . . . A Pop-up ToadsterA TubaboonThe ClocktopusA Hatchicken and . . .The Bold UmbrellaphantAnd what do you get when you cross this book with a kid?Why . . . The Happy Kibook!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060543174 (0060543175)
ASIN: 60543175
Publish date: October 1st 2006
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
This might be my first stab at reading poetry to the children. Certainly I've not tried it more than two or three times. My niece and nephew don't seem to really dig rhyming text, so I really wasn't sure how they were going to feel about this book of (rhyming) poems. But in the end I decided, "He...
Prelutsky combines animals and inanimate objects to create silly new animals. Love the collage illustrations. I plan to figure out a way to make my own Clocktopus for the library...
I find it very difficult to rate/review poetry collections like this. Namely, I feel extremely unqualified to discuss and critique poetry - even children's poetry. But also 'concept based' collections like this tend to be rather hit or miss - it's rare for every single poem to wow. I was fairly un...
15 years ago
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