Title: Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780060543174
Summary: This anthology of poetry for children takes household objects and animals and combines them. With beautiful and unique illustrations, these poems comes to life for the reader. Children can easily relate to the poem because the household objects in the poem are something most children know about.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Title: The Carnival of the Animals
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780375864582
Summary: This anthology is a group of poems that match the animals from Saint-Saens portrayed in his famous work back in 1886. You can real this alone on with the CD that is available with it. Children can see the different literary devices that can be used in poems clearly in these examples.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Title: It's Thanksgiving!
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780060537111
Summary: This shorter anthology contains poems all about Thanksgiving. Children can enjoy poetry about this holiday that talks about the food, the parade, and the family you can spend it with. This book contains 12 poems.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I am actually curious about the first book, behold the bold umbrellaphant! it sounds so clever. I see the cover shows the newspaper clippings to make the illustrations, is that how it is throughout the book? Definitely a unique artistic style.
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