Overview
This amusing collection of animal tales in rhyming verse features felines of all kinds, from pet cats to wild cats both real and fanciful, and a few beloved dogs. Meet a cat who needs encouragement to take a bath, a clever math-whiz cat, a sleepy cat dreaming of catching goldfish, a family pet named Maxie who rules the house matter-of-factly, a cat on the bank of the Nile who encounters a hungry crocodile, cats who think every day is Caturday, a catena of cats with catitude, plus tigers, lions, leopards, a lynx, and an ocelot more. With engaging characters, adventurous twists and turns, and whimsical wordplay, these poems will become pet family favorites to read aloud and treasure. Middle grade through adult Flesch Reading Ease Score: 91.3
Full Product Details
Author: Jeffry Glover ,
Mary Bausman
Publisher: Poems for Pleasure Press LLC
Imprint: Poems for Pleasure Press LLC
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.245kg
ISBN: 9781948854016
ISBN 10: 1948854015
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 24 September 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Jeffry Glover's book, 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems, is quite simply pure fun.... [P]oems and stories are told in rhyming verse and are delightfully purrfect.... Any pet owner or animal lover will enjoy this lively and often humorous look at the world according to cats (and dogs).... - Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite Oh, what fun we can have with a play on words and purrfect rhyming....[Jeffry Glover's poems] certainly paint a lively picture of beloved pets from infancy to mature adult.... Some of the poems are cute little ditties, others describe a particular memory of a special feline member of the family.... - Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
""Jeffry Glover's book, 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems, is quite simply pure fun.... [P]oems and stories are told in rhyming verse and are delightfully purrfect.... Any pet owner or animal lover will enjoy this lively and often humorous look at the world according to cats (and dogs)...."" - Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite ""Oh, what fun we can have with a play on words and ""purrfect"" rhyming....[Jeffry Glover's poems] certainly paint a lively picture of beloved pets from infancy to mature adult.... Some of the poems are cute little ditties, others describe a particular memory of a special feline member of the family...."" - Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Author Information
Jeffry Glover, winner of a Robert Frost Foundation national poetry award and a top ten Outstanding Leader in Education award, creates delightful rhyming poems and tales in verse. He draws upon his experience as a school librarian, language arts teacher, book editor, and library games inventor to produce collections of verse that are in turn whimsical, humorous, heartwarming, serious, and fun to read. As a reading promotion and library products developer, his work has reached millions of children and adults on three continents to encourage reading and the use of libraries. In retirement he is publishing multiple volumes of poetry and rhyming tales that continue these endeavors. Renowned author and illustrator of many books as well as illustrator of widely-used library and reading promotion products.
