Beastly Verse

„Beastly verse“
Author: Joohee Yoon
Age: 4-8 years

Selected for the New York Public Library’s 2015 List of 100 Best Books for Reading & Sharing
A Bank Street Books Best Children’s Book of the Year 2016 (Outstanding Merit)
A Booklist Editor’s Choice for 2015
A Book Links Magazine Choice for the Top Classroom Picks for 2015
Selected for the Society of Illustrators 2015 Original Art Show

Consisting of playful as well as powerfully memorable poems, Beastly Verse transports the reader into a richly worded world of tigers, hummingbirds, owls, elephants, pelicans, yaks, snails, and even telephones! A playful romp through verse, rhyme, and gorgeous images, this book carries children into the poetic realm in a way that is not only fun and inviting, but inspiring as well!

Representing poems from Anonymous, as well as some lesser well-known poets, this volume also includes poems from Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Robert Desnos, Hilaire Belloc, William Cowper, Christina Rossetti, and D.H. Lawrence. Both short and long, these poems can be read and reread, committed to memory and enjoyed all life long.