Jack Prelutsky is the undisputed master of hilarious verse for the youngest child. And Petra Mathers, has no equal when it comes to bringing anything with fur or feathers uproariously to life. Put the two of them together -and you have a modern classic. Here are poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon. Impossible to read only once (and memorized by the third reading), these exuberant poems and irresistible pictures will be loved by children from Miami to Seattle.
Other books by this author
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day
Illustrator:
Paul O. Zelinsky Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales 
Dog Days: Rhymes Around the Year
Illustrator:
Dyanna Wolcott Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Poetry 
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Illustrator:
Lane Smith Age Level:
6-9 
I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus
Illustrator:
Jackie Urbanovic Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
If Not for the Cat
Illustrator:
Ted Rand Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
It’s Thanksgiving
Illustrator:
Marylin Hafner Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Poetry 
My Parents Think I’m Sleeping
Illustrator:
Yossi Abolafia Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry 
Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
Age Level:
9-12 
Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme
Illustrator:
Meilo So Age Level:
6-9 
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Illustrator:
Marc Brown Age Level:
0-3 Genre:
Poetry 
Scranimals
Illustrator:
Peter Sís Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry 
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
Illustrator:
Gilda Berger Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
The Carnival of the Animals
Illustrator:
Mary GrandPre Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
There’s No Place Like School: Classroom Poems
Illustrator:
Jane Manning Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry