Stardines Swim High Across the Sky
and Other Poems
On Sale: 02/26/2013
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky
and Other Poems
On Sale: 02/26/2013
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Publishers Weekly Best Book
About the Book
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
Critical Praise
“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)
Praise for Scranimals: “Hilarious, inventive.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Prelutsky tweaks language with his characteristic glee, wedging in plenty of humor.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Praise for Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems: “This is definitely a ‘do not miss’ poetry pick.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
“Young readers will behold a wonderful, fantasically silly book.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Pretty brilliant.” — Kirkus Reviews
-Product Details
- ISBN: 9780062014641
- ISBN 10: 0062014641
- Imprint: Greenwillow Books
- On Sale: 02/26/2013
- Pages: 40
- List Price:21.99 CAD
- Ages: 4 to 8
- BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Jungle Animals
- BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Pets
- BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Nocturnal
- BISAC4 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs
- BISAC5 : JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
- BISAC6 : JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
- BISAC7 : JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Beginner
- BISAC8 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General
- BISAC9 : JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
- BISAC10 : JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)
