Animals That Ought to Be: Poems About Imaginary Pets - Hardcover

Michelson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689806353 ISBN 13: 9780689806353

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

In these imaginative poems you'll find animals that nobody has ever hear of-but that certainly ought to exist.

Each poem in this collection is paired with a striking painting by renowned artist, Leonard Baskin, and will inspire young readers to invent their own animals that ought to be.

About this title

Review:

Baskin and Michelson, who collaborated very effectively on the earlier Did You Say Ghosts?, have created a dozen creepy--but helpful--creatures, including the Nightmare Scarer, which eats bad dreams; and the Channel Changer, which gives a new meaning to the term "belly button." (Ages 5 to 8)

About the Author:

Richard Michelson is a prize-winning poet whose works appear in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Introduction to Poetry and Blood to Remember: American Poets of the Holocaust. His collection Tap Dancing for the Relatives was praised by Elie Wiesel as "deeply moving." He is also the author of the children's book, Grandpa's Gamble (Cavendish Children's Books, 1999). The owner of R. Michelson Galleries, he lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0689806353
• ISBN 13: 9780689806353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Baskin Leonard