Whiskers and Paws - Hardcover

Waters, Fiona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0769631886 ISBN 13: 9780769631882

Publisher: Brighter Child, 2003

Synopsis

This collection of whimsical poems features child-friendly verse about creatures of all shapes and sizes. Children will love the imaginative poems about ice-skating polars bears and fiddle-playing cats. The gentle, humorous illustrations by Vanessa Julian-Ottie invite readers into a charming and imaginative world. The short, simple verse with an irresistible rhyme engages young children just beginning to read while it encourages a love of poetry for readers of all ages.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

As poetry anthologies for children proliferate, customers are of necessity becoming more selective; this slight entry into the burgeoning field faces keen competition. Eleven brief--none longer than nine lines--animal verses comprise this collection; some are of anonymous authorship, and some have been anthologized previously. They are all composed with deceptive simplicity and possess a quiet charm that will no doubt grow on young listeners. For those who had been curious, for example, "The secret of the polar bear / Is that he wears long underwear." Elsewhere, a bemused earthworm watches as Beatrix Potter's Diggory Delvet "digs and he delves-- / You can see for yourselves." Julian-Ottie's bucolic watercolors have a comforting, old-fashioned warmth that nearly overshadows the rhymes. Ages 2-6.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Brighter Child
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0769631886
• ISBN 13: 9780769631882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24