Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings - Hardcover

Florian, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152013067 ISBN 13: 9780152013066

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1998

Synopsis

The windows are open and bugs are everywhere! Children will delight in this collection of twenty-one buggy poems--just don't forget the calamine lotion.Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 4/1/2002Pages: 48Reading Level: Age 5 and Up

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Review:

A perfect springtime accompaniment to actual bugs, Insectlopedia swarms, buzzes, and slithers with poetry and paint. Douglas Florian, creator of the award-winning Beast Feast, On the Wing, and In the Swim, has succeeded again, this time with a delightful infestation of 21 spider and insect poems and paintings, awash in watercolor and collage on primed brown paper bags.

Well-loved for his clever wordplay (complete with endearingly shameless visual and verbal puns), Florian manages to seamlessly blend science with pure whimsy. Take "The Praying Mantis," for example: "Upon a twig/I sit and pray/For something big/To wend my way;/A caterpillar,/Moth,/or bee--/I swallow them/Religiously." His rhythmic chant "The Weevils" begins, "We are weevils./We are evil./We've aggrieved/Since time primeval." Add a few inchworms, moths, and whirligig beetles, and you have the blisteringly funny, stingingly clever Insectlopedia, the perfect book for emerging entomologists and budding poets alike. (All ages)

Book Description:

Hardcover published in 1998
0-15-201306-7

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0152013067
• ISBN 13: 9780152013066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 47