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Lewis, J. Patrick

The World's Greatest: Poems

32 pp. | Chronicle | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8118-5130-5 $16.99

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Keith Graves. Each of the twenty-five works in this inventive collection is based on a Guinness Book of World Records entry. Some are not unexpected while others are more bizarre ("The Most Cobras Kissed Consecutively"). Lewis varies his style to best accommodate the feat described. Likewise, Graves's acrylic and colored-pencil illustrations take different forms and as much space as they need to illuminate the poems.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2008