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32 pp.
| Cavendish |
March, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-7614-5160-9$$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
David Slonim.
"Our rooster has terrible luck. / He has fallen in love with a duck. / But the rooster can't swim, / And the chances are slim / That his sweetheart will ever speak CLUCK." These eighteen poems about farm animals are friendly and funny, but the rhymes occasionally falter or fall flat. The pen-and-ink line of the cartoony acrylics is stronger than the poetry.