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Overview"Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky evokes both natural history museums and wild and silly fantasy. ""The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed.""—Publishers Weekly Sixteen extraordinary imagined creatures inhabit the pages of this unique, inspired, humorous picture book ideal for sharing together, and for reading again and again. Jack Prelutsky reinvents many familiar and beloved animals by combining inanimate objects with them (so, for example, a pair of pants and an anteater become a panteater). Carin Berger's illustrations are showstoppers. Her shadow boxes and dioramas utilize vintage type, ephemera, and such elements as ribbon, cards, buttons, and wood and bring the animals to life. Read it aloud, read it together: this is a catalog of effervescent silliness and will undoubtedly inspire young poets and artists alike. ""The total effect is both whimsical and fascinating, with rich language in the poems and unexpected objects in the pictures to return to over and over again.'—The Horn Book" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jack Prelutsky , Carin Berger , Carin Berger , Jack PrelutskyPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperCollins Dimensions: Width: 23.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 28.90cm Weight: 0.444kg ISBN: 9780062014641ISBN 10: 0062014641 Pages: 40 Publication Date: 26 February 2013 Recommended Age: From 4 to 8 years Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsYoung readers will behold a wonderful, fantasically silly book. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Spectacular [and] witty. . . . Has the feel of a vintage science project by the weirdest (and most imaginative) kid in class. The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed. --Publishers Weekly Praise for Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems: This is definitely a 'do not miss' poetry pick. --School Library Journal (starred review) Spectacular [and] witty. . . . Has the feel of a vintage science project by the weirdest (and most imaginative) kid in class. The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Pretty brilliant. --Kirkus Reviews Author InformationJack Prelutsky is the best-selling author of more than fifty books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block, illustrated by James Stevenson, and Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, illustrated by Carin Berger. Jack Prelutsky lives in Washington State. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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