LITERATURE
Florian, Douglas

Bow Wow Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs

(2) K-3 Twenty-one pithy poems celebrate our favorite domestic animals and their wild cousins. Florian melds sense, sound, and visual image, and puns and wordplay abound ("Why ocelots have lots of spots puzzles ocelot"). He affectionately captures the essence of these creatures, both in his verse and in large, square illustrations, luscious with offbeat color.

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