A large, delightful collection of poems, all about animals, arranged by the author under amusing and interesting groupings. find new verses Here we by popular modern poets as well as favorites by writers of long-standing prominence. Apparently animals large and small offer a particular charm to the poetic muse, for the beauty, the variety, the imagination, the humor of this collection of poems would be difficult to match in any other anthology.
There are verses about the animals of the circus, the barnyard, the pets at home, birds of the air and insects that crawl on the ground, fanciful creatures and the realistic animals we all know. There are long ones and short ones, serious ones, gay ones,- some you will recognize and others that will be new, but all of them poems that children enjoy. It is a happy selection, a book to be welcomed by parents, teachers, and librarians as well as by the boys and girls themselves.
The little animals have inspired the poets, and the lovely verses seem to have given a particular magical touch to Robert Lawson's beautiful illustrations.
—from the dust jacket
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