Snag Your Copy The Baby Uggs Are Hatching Crafted By James Stevenson Formatted As Paperback

was NUTS about this book as a kid, and the silly rhymes and illustrations are just right for tickling the imagination, This was one of my daughter's favorite books when she was young, It is delightful! "Prelutsky, in a dozen breezy, lilting poems, creates twelve wildly improbable creatures and Stevenson matches them with wildly silly and totally engaging drawings, "Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, this is a great introduction to poetry for young children Many of the poems were tonguetwisters, Humorous at times and extremely fictional, This poetry book is a fun way to introduce

new poems to students, I personally enjoyed reading this silly book because it let my imagination do a lot of the work, The poems are typically tongue twisters, for example, one poem reads, " The Sneezysnoozer sneezes in a dozen sneezy sizes", which shows a literary element called alliteration, This book would be best used as a read aloud for curriculum purposes for showing different literary elements, The language is nonsense like, as along with the imagery, I would use this in the classroom to show a fun way of incorporating poetry in units, One of my students handed me this book and told me I had to read it, That's always a good sign, . I could not believe I had never read this crazy, funny romp of a collection, The illustrations are hilarious, and the rhymes, besides just being fun, offer up a LOT of opportunities for discussionrhyming words, figurative language, vocabulary building, dictionary usejust to name a few.
As a boy obsessed with horror and scifi, I delighted in this book, It was like a revelation, a sign that somewhere out there were people as weird and twisted as myself and with a sense of humour to boot, I think this is definitely required reading for any young boy, and for any young girl of discerning tastes, Poetry

The Baby Uggs Are Hatching Paperback October,
by Jack Prelutsky Author, James Stevenson Illustrator

I love this little book of monster poems,

I use it around Easter time, I have my students create baby uggs after reading this poem,

This book is good for pkth This selection introduces children to poetry and offers some advanced language, Librarian Note: There is than one author with this name in the Goodreads databse, .