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Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems Audiobook, by Jack Prelutsky Play Audiobook Sample

Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems Audiobook

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Read By: Jack Prelutsky Publisher: Greenwillow Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062224552

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

18

Longest Chapter Length:

01:10 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

26 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

41 seconds

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky evokes both natural history museums and wild and silly fantasy. "The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed."—Publishers Weekly

Sixteen extraordinary imagined creatures inhabit the pages of this unique, inspired, humorous picture book ideal for sharing together, and for reading again and again. Jack Prelutsky reinvents many familiar and beloved animals by combining inanimate objects with them (so, for example, a pair of pants and an anteater become a panteater). Carin Berger's illustrations are showstoppers. Her shadow boxes and dioramas utilize vintage type, ephemera, and such elements as ribbon, cards, buttons, and wood and bring the animals to life. Read it aloud, read it together: this is a catalog of effervescent silliness and will undoubtedly inspire young poets and artists alike. "The total effect is both whimsical and fascinating, with rich language in the poems and unexpected objects in the pictures to return to over and over again.'—The Horn Book

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“Meticulously rendered to excite and amuse…Fromthe dour to the delightful, Prelutsky describes each creature in detail,packing each line with punchy playfulness…Whimsy takes flight in this humorouscollection.”

— Kirkus Reviews

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  • “As clever as ever…Has the feel of a vintage science project by the weirdest (and most imaginative) kid in class. The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed.”

    — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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About Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky was the nation’s first Children’s Poet Laureate. He has filled more than fifty books of verse with his inventive wordplay, including the national bestsellers Scranimals and The New Kid on the Block. He lives in Washington State.