Stardines Swim High Across the sky and Other Poems

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Call Number: Kids Book / Fiction / Poetry & Plays / Prelutsky, Jack
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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A collection of sixteen humorous poems about such strange creatures as the stardine, slobster, and magpipe.

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High flying, indeed submitted by LibraryMaven on June 14, 2014, 9:09pm Stardines is set of sixteen of silly poems with sophisticated illustrations that share equal billing with the text. Prelutsky's inventive rhymes and wild animal/attribute creations are set off by Berger's equally inventive dioramas created from found objects. The bouncing rhythm makes it an excellent introduction to poetry in the classroom or the home, while the detailed illustrations make for fun I Spy type games with younger children. The high level vocabulary of the poems is too difficult to be read alone by the beginning reader, but make great read aloud. Elementary age children will enjoy the word play that is used to create the animal in each poem, and could create their own animal and poem as a class activity after exploring the book.