2007, Greenwillow Books
64 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 3.50
My rating: 3
Endpapers: rusty red
Title Page: double page, with the title (etc) on the LEFT page - nice to model that anything goes
Illustrations: borders around each page, pages numbered
Here's a poem I'd model to show that even silly poems need to make sense:
The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles
The poodles ate oodles of noodles,
the setters ate lettuce on rye.
A small Pekingese
at nothing but peas,
and a greyhound ran off with the pie.
Here's one that plays with colors:
In Amarillo, Texas
In Amarillo, Texas,
upon a yellow chair,
complete with yellow pillow,
sat little Willa Ware.
She at a yellow apple,
she ate a yellow pear,
while wearing yellow flowers
atop her yellow hair.
And of course I must include one that features Maine - and uses the wonderful word galoshes: (and gives kids the ridiculous notion that you can wander the beach and find a LOBSTER!!!! ...oh my, Mr. Prelutsky....)
There's a Lady in Galoshes
There's a lady in galoshes,
and her name is Jolly Jane.
How she loves to look for lobsters
on the rocky coast of Maine.
She can find them by the dozen
in the sun and wind and rain.
She's the queen of lobster ladies,
and her name is Jolly Jane.
T
My comments: I love Prelutsky, but this isn't one of my favorites. The illustrations are cool, but the poems are pretty young - too young, in most cases, for me to use with fourth graders.
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