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32 pp.
| Chronicle |
April, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8118-6792-4$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Calef Brown.
Selected by Daniel Pinkwater. Two admirers of Lear--Pinkwater and Brown--pay homage to the sultan of silliness in this oversized collection of ten poems. A brief introduction to the poet sets the stage for the nonsense verse, including "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "The Quangle Wangle's Hat." Illustrations with a folk-art quality are saturated with color and reveal an imagination as ebullient and expansive as Lear's.