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Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Editor

Hoofbeats, Claws and Rippled Fins: Creature Poems

32 pp. | HarperCollins | March, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-688-17942-8 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-688-17943-6 $$15.89
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. These fourteen animal poems accent the creatures' physicality. On each double-page spread, a decorative frame encases a woodblock print of an animal, barely containing its aliveness. The changing typography's font size and shape further dramatize these beings. Despite the verbal muscularity of many of the contemporary poems, it is Alcorn's powerful visual imagery that binds together this striking tribute to the grandeur of nature's creatures.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2002

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