Jack Prelutsky

Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey, " "I Ate Too Much, " "Daddy's Football Game, " and "If Turkeys Thought."

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...

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

An illustrated collection of humorous poems on a variety of topics.

An illustrated, rhyming tale of a wicked wizard and his evil deeds, as he uses "elemental sorcery" to change a bullfrog into a series of objects, from a flea to a flame.

A day at school doesn't always turn out the way one would think it would be, in a collection of poetry about crazy classroom experiences and the students who endure them.

Thirteen Halloween poems for beginning readers.

A collection of seventeen poems introduces a vast array of colorful characters, who are part creature, part inanimate object, from the ballpoint penguin to the spatuloon.