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Title: The Oxford Book of Animal Poems by Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark ISBN: 0-19-276213-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 06 May, 1999 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

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Summary: Wild about animals
Comment: Does your child (children) love animals and dinosaurs? Of course. Are you tired of reading the same dreary standards to them over and over? Of course. Try something very different. The Oxford Book of Animal Poems is a treat for reader and listener with poems long and short, easy and challenging, pictures that delight and that leave room for the imagination. I've had this book for years and am buying another for a gift. I may enjoy it more than my 9-year-old daughter, who wants to be a veterinarian. There are standards: Blake's "Tiger, Tiger" and there are surprises: Gavin Ewart's "Gondwanaland," which opens the book and is written in the form of an extended limerick. Its rollicking spirit and fanciful word play set the tone of the book throughout. Further adventures come from poems translated from folk songs and tribal chants. Great authors (Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Carl Sandburg) are represented. But some of the finest, and fun-est, poems come from little-known authors who absolutely deserve their placement in this Oxford anthology if their poems here are indicative of their talent. Poetry lover or no, this wonderful book should be on any child reader's shelf, next to Stevenson's "Child's Garden of Verse."