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muddypuddle's review against another edition
3.0
I love Prelutsky, but this isn't one of my favorites. The illustrations are cool, but the poems are pretty young - too young, in most cases, for me to use with fourth graders.
luann's review
3.0
I've been trying to flesh out my library's poetry collection, and this is one of the books I recently purchased. I also purchased Prelutsky's [b:The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders|203158|The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders|Jack Prelutsky|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172645522s/203158.jpg|196568]. While the two collections are quite similar in content, I think I liked "frogs" just a little bit more than "giraffe." But they could both be used in quite similar ways in the classroom, and students who enjoyed reading one of the books would most likely enjoy the other as well.
As with "frogs," my favorite poems were those that had a geographical subject. This time he even goes to Mexico for one poem. Petra Mathers' illustrations are fun and contribute a lot of humor even to some of the poems that aren't my favorites.
I think one reason I didn't enjoy these poems quite as much is that some of them feel unfinished. I would have enjoyed many of them more with an additional stanza or two.
In my review for "frogs," I wondered whether Jack Prelutsky traveled around the country and wrote poems as he went. Now I'm wondering if the final poem in this collection answers my question:
There was a little poet
with a little silver pen,
who liked to write a little,
every little now and then.
He took a little journey
to a little mountain stream,
and there he took a little nap
and dreamed a little dream.
He dreamed of little dragons,
and he dreamed of little kings,
he dreamed of little elephants
with little golden wings.
He woke a little later
and he thought a little while,
then wrote a book of little rhymes
and smiled a little smile.
As with "frogs," my favorite poems were those that had a geographical subject. This time he even goes to Mexico for one poem. Petra Mathers' illustrations are fun and contribute a lot of humor even to some of the poems that aren't my favorites.
I think one reason I didn't enjoy these poems quite as much is that some of them feel unfinished. I would have enjoyed many of them more with an additional stanza or two.
In my review for "frogs," I wondered whether Jack Prelutsky traveled around the country and wrote poems as he went. Now I'm wondering if the final poem in this collection answers my question:
There was a little poet
with a little silver pen,
who liked to write a little,
every little now and then.
He took a little journey
to a little mountain stream,
and there he took a little nap
and dreamed a little dream.
He dreamed of little dragons,
and he dreamed of little kings,
he dreamed of little elephants
with little golden wings.
He woke a little later
and he thought a little while,
then wrote a book of little rhymes
and smiled a little smile.
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