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Words with wrinkled knees
animal poems
By Esbensen, Barbara Juster & Stadler, John
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-69004-504-8
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, c1986.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1986
Gr 3-6 Each of these 21 animal poems tries to capture the essence of an individual animal by examining the word used to name it. Sometimes the exercise works, as with snake ("slips /like a silk shoelace /away") or hummingbird ("Glimpse this wordits clockwork /partswhere blossom /intersects with air") but more often it fails. The penguin is reduced to the cliched ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
