There's a Building on Sixth Avenue

Rigby, Rodney

ISBN 10: 1562821555 / ISBN 13: 9781562821555

Published by Hyperion, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991

About this Item

Oversized Unpaginated Colorful illustrations Humorous four-line poems.

Seller Inventory # 75188

Bibliographic Details

• Title: There's a Building on Sixth Avenue
• Publisher: Hyperion, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562821555
• ISBN 13: 9781562821555
• Binding: Glossy Hardback
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Four-line poems reveal a humorous perspective on their subjects--Martians, a cowboy, deep-sea diving, the new moon, and many others

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 2-- These four-line poems are supposed to be clever musings on such things as singing birthday cakes, deep-sea diving, and Martians. Instead, they're uninspired and flat, and they fail to amuse or intrigue. (``A snowman was sad/ with no one to play,/ so he made some new friends,/ now he plays the whole day.'') The illustrations, in pen and ink and bright colors, are obviously an effort to emphasize the silly possibilities of the verses, but they do little to spark the imagination. They're much like the work of Drescher, Khalsa, and even Pinkwater, but without the personality. As poetry or as a picture book, this building fails to rise above curb level. --Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY
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