Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: And Other Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062014641)

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

Author: Jack Prelutsky
ISBN-10: 0062014641
ISBN-13: 9780062014641
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2013
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.47h x 11.59w x 0.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 163766 / Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/01/2012 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2012
School Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 95
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2013
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2013 pg. 130
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2013 pg. 433
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Superior,Well Above Average