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This collection of poems and commentaries from the poets provides great reading. It also offers opportunities to engage kids in responding to poetry and inspire them to write their own. The description on the back cover reads:
“24 poets writing about 24 poems. How do you decide what to wish for on a wishing bone, and when do you stop wishing? What’s it like to swim a mile? What happens when a seahorse and an octopus meet in a dance? How do you make colours crackle and roar? And what does a digeri-do? Twenty-four poets from across the English-speaking world offer surprising and candid insights into their methods and sources of inspiration in this ground-breaking anthology.”		 The reader will first be amused by the images and rhythms of the poems in this book and delighted with its focus on animals. Deeper pleasure awaits, though, in noting Lawson’s careful selection of words. As he explains in his afterword, his intention was to create an “alphabet book based on vowel combinations, rather than initial letters,” but that was only the beginning. The poems combine extraordinary skill with language along a great imagination and sense of humor. The collection is sure to delight children and adults on several levels.
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