Beast Feast : Poems
Florian ( Monster Motel ; Vegetable Garden ) indeed presents a feast--for the eyes and the ears--in this cheerful collection of brief, bouncy poems describing an eclectic roundup of animals. Each focusing on a single "beast," the entries range from snappy two-liners ("The rhea rheally isn't strange-- / It's just an ostrich, rhearranged") to relatively longer poems of cleverly rhymed couplets. Florian's distinctive, full-page watercolors are as playful as his verse: a chameleon (whose hue changes "from mousy browns to leafy greens / And several colors in between") holds an artist's palette and paintbrush; and the "tubby toad" (who is "so squat and plump / That rarely does it even jump") weighs in on a bathroom scale. An ideal read-aloud, this volume will leave young listeners as lighthearted as its own contents. Ages 4-8.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.