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A Pizza the Size of the Sun

by Jack Prelutsky Publisher: GREENWILLOW

A playful poetry collection full of oddball encounters

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A playful poetry collection full of oddball encounters

Jack Prelutsky’s collection gathers humorous poems populated by such offbeat figures as a puzzled python, Miss Misinformation, Swami Gourami, and Gladiola Gloppe of the Soup Shoppe. The book also plays with poetic form: alongside its many character-centered pieces are a backwards poem and a poem designed not to end. James Stevenson’s black-and-white drawings accompany the verse, extending the collection’s imaginative, comic world. With poems that can be sampled in any order, the volume offers a varied introduction to rhyme, wordplay, and inventive situations.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children who enjoy silly rhymes and comic wordplay
  • Young poetry browsers who like dipping into short, stand-alone pieces
  • Families or classrooms exploring humorous children’s poetry

Themes

HumorRhyme and wordplayImaginationEccentric charactersPoetic forms

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Book overview

From the best-selling team of Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson, here is another collection of wondrously rich, clever, funny, and delectable poems and black-and-white drawings destined to become favorites.

Discover and enjoy a dozen duhduhs, a puzzled python, and the coolest teenage hippopotamus you'll ever meet. Meet Miss Misinformation, Swami Gourami, and Gladiola Gloppe (and her Soup Shoppe), and delight in a backwards poem, a poem that ever ends, and scores of others that will be changed, read, and loved by readers of every age. Whether you begin at the beginning or just open the book at random, you won't stop smiling.

"Prelutsky's a natural rhymester. He has a keen sense of what tickles kids."--Kirkus Reviews

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