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Scranimals

by Jack Prelutsky Publisher: GREENWILLOW

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A pun-filled field guide to impossible creatures

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    Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

    Listed as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far).

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A pun-filled field guide to impossible creatures

Scranimals imagines an island populated by hybrid beings whose names and features blend animals with vegetables and flowers: the Rhinocerose, Broccolion, and Pandaffodil among them. Jack Prelutsky builds the book around playful rhymes and invented natural-history observations, turning each creature into a compact comic poem. The island-exploration framing gives the collection a loose sense of expedition while leaving room for wordplay, visual imagination, and the surprise of each new scrambled species. Peter Sís’s illustrations accompany this menagerie of botanical and animal mash-ups.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children who enjoy puns, rhymes, and made-up words
  • Families looking for short humorous poems to share aloud
  • Young readers interested in imaginative animal-and-plant creatures

Themes

WordplayNonsense creaturesAnimals and plantsPoetryImagination

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Book overview

KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (SO FAR)

We're sailing to Scranimal Island,

It doesn't appear on most maps....

Scranimal Island is where you will find the fragrant Rhinocerose, the cunning Broccolions, and, if you are really, really lucky and very, very quiet, you will spot the gentle, shy Pandaffodil. (You may even hear it yawning if the morning's just begun, watch its petals slowly open to embrace the rising sun.)

So put on your pith helmet and prepare to explore a wilderness of puns and rhymes where birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers have been mysteriously scrambled together to create creatures you've never seen before--and are unlikely to meet again! Your guides--Jack Prelutsky, poet laureate of the elementary school set, and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis - invite you to join them on an adventure you will never forget!

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