So put on your pith helmet and prepare to explore a wilderness of puns and rhymes where birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers have been mysteriously scrambled together to create creatures you've never seen before — and are unlikely to meet again! Your guides — Jack Prelutsky, poet laureate of the elementary school set, and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis — invite you to join them on an adventure you will never forget!

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This is an illustrated new edition of Edward Lear's classic nonsense rhyme about the epic voyage of two courteous lovers and their eventual marriage on the island of the bong tree; in the piggy-wig and his ring, the vicar turkey, and the wedding feast eaten with the runcible spoon.

"An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"-- Provided by publisher.

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.

A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.

"A selection of animal poems from the seminal British poet, Ted Hughes"-- Provided by publisher.

'Common Critters' celebrates neighborhood wildlife in verse. A familiar cast of characters--worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and others--crawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through these lively poems, which show how exotic these seemingly ordinary creatures really are.

"All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world--dandelion, otter, bramble and acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer...

A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people.

Each of the twenty-three poems in this posthumous collection by Valerie Worth distinguishes one animal from all other creatures and captures it in all of its singularity - from wasp to snake to wren.