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Prelutsky, Jack

The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems from Beyond the Solar System

40 pp. | Knopf | March, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84674-8 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94674-5 $19.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Jimmy Pickering. Prelutsky takes readers to planets they've never heard of--and wouldn't want to visit (e.g., Swole, where you can't stop crying; Skreber, where you can't stop laughing). This macabre journey isn't for the faint of heart or lazy of mind; Prelutsky's meter rewards careful ears while trusting readers to figure out words like cataclysmic and unconscionably. Pickering's comically creepy illustrations enhance the strangeness.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2009

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