It's Raining Pigs & Noodles
Brace yourself for more pun-ishment from the playful Jack Prelutsky and  illustrator James Stevenson, creators ofThe New Kid on the Block,Something Big Has Been Here,  andA Pizza the Size of the  Sun. More than 100 Prelutsky poems populate the pages--a mix of  8-year-old-boy humor, nonsense poetry in the tradition of Ogden Nash and Edward Lear,  and clever, often unabashedly shameless, wordplay. While there are many, many  doozies, our favorite is "Hiccup!," excerpted here:I've tried gulpinghiccupwater,stood upon myhiccuphead,held my breath until myhiccuphiccupface turnedhiccupred.Chronic cogitators are celebrated in "Quibble Q. Quing" (who thinks about  things), and wild imaginations in "Purple Orangutans:" ("Rabbits and parrots  play tag in the stars, / marshmallows march in the meadows of Mars... / these  are a few of the wonders I find / in the magic museum I keep in my mind.")  Children find a kindred spirit in Prelutsky, a poet who knows full well that  overweight underdogs and chocolate-covered salami and Sniffing Snutterwudds are  always worth a giggle. Stevenson's understated (but always expressive) line  drawings suit this silly collection to a T. (Perfect for reading aloud to  younger readers, but wordsmiths ages 9 and older will pick up all the puns.)--Karin Snelson--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.