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Title: I Once Had a Pet Preying Mantis by Len Gasparini, Leonard Gasparini, Robert Dykstra ISBN: 0-88962-592-1 Publisher: Mosaic Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: inspiring love of poetry and of nature
Comment: I purchased this book because the Journal of Canadian Children's Literature said that every library and school in the country "should have it". I would enlarge that recommendation to the US and Canada, e.g. garter snakes are almost everywhere.

Gasparini is a masterful poet better known for his adult volumes and plays. He presents "nature lessons in verse" that I still find echoing in my mind. My nephew found it hilarious, a neighbour's child memorized several poems to recite to her class. The poems do not demean the reader with anthrocentricism. Instead, they ignite your curiosity with sophisticated prosity and a masterful command of poetry as an art form.