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40 pp.
| Tradewind
| March, 2012
|
TradeISBN 978-1-896580-71-5$18.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Marc Mongeau.
In the first half of these sixteen poems, parents attempt to rouse their sleepy children with playful threats of monsters and eyeball bugs. In the second half, it's the parents who need waking, as their kids threaten them with various disasters. Creative line arrangements and rhymes distract from the sometimes uneven meter. The illustrations evoke the bizarreness of dreamland.