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A Hippopotamusn't
And Other Animal Verses
By Lewis, J. R. & Chess, Victoria
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80370-518-0
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1990.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1990
K-Gr 5 A parade of animals, insects, and birds--tomcat, pelican, flamingo, turkey, slug--march through these 35 delightful poems--one per page. With a sense of poetic humor reminiscent of the work of X. J. Kennedy, Lewis offers lines that are generously descriptive in an amusing way: a tomcat is "The bird-watching bandit/ On needle-point claws/ The chief of detectives/On marshma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
