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Worth, Valerie

Pug and Other Animal Poems

40 pp. | Farrar/Ferguson | March, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-35024-6 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Jenkins. Like Jenkins's first collection of Worth's poems, Animal Poems, bold collages of precisely observed creatures dramatize eighteen welcome additions to Worth's oeuvre. The soulful "Pug" is a worried charmer ("Perhaps because, for / Dogs, they look / A lot like people"); a primeval black bull is "Rough-hewn, / From the planet's / Hard side, / From the cold / Black rock / That abides."

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013