| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of poems by such authors as William Blake, Christina Rosetti, Hilaire Belloc, Adam Stemple, and Jane Yolen describe all kinds of animals from anteaters to zebras. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Anteater / Jane Yolen -- Ant song / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The bat / Theodore Roethke -- Lucy, large bear / Pat Schneider -- The cow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The caterpillar / Christina Rossetti -- The prayer of the cat / Carmen Bernos De Gasztold (translated by Rumer Godden) -- Donkey / Anonymous -- Wild ducks / Sandra Liatsos -- Lone dog / Irene Rutherford McLeod -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The emu / Jane Yolen -- Elephant / Anonymous -- Firefly / Anonymous -- The frog / Hilaire Belloc -- Fishes come bite! / Beatrix Potter -- Grasshoppers three (Old song) -- Ground hog day / Lilian Moore -- The gazelle calf / D.H. Lawrence -- Horses / Aileen Fisher -- The hawk / Robert Sund -- Hamsters / Marci Ridlon -- The Irish wolf-hound / Denis Florence McCarthy -- Iguana / Jane Yolen -- Junco / Adam Stemple -- Jumping bean / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The Kangaroo's courtship / Jane Yolen -- Kookaburra / Marion Sinclair -- The Kaffir cat / Adam Stemple -- The lamb / William Blake -- Ladybird! Ladybird! / Emily Brontë -- Lizard / D.H. Lawrence -- Mules (Old song) -- Monkey, monkey / Anonymous -- Mosquito / Eastern Eskimo -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- Nighthawk / Toni A. Watson -- Newt / Jane Yolen -- Nightjar / Adam Stemple -- The octopus / Ogden Nash -- The ostrich / Jack Prelutsky -- The owl / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- This little piggy / Anonymous -- The panther / Ogden Nash -- The peacock / Robert Francis -- Quetzal -- Quiet! / Anna Kirwan-Vogel -- Quail / Ann Turner -- The two-horned black rhinoceros / Jack Prelutsky -- Rooster / Anonymous -- Mister rabbit (Old song) -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Snake / Theodore Roethke -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Delicate the toad / Robert Francis -- from The tiger / William Blake -- Tiger / Anonymous -- Unicorn / William Jay Smith -- The umbrella bird / Adam Stemple -- The unicorn leaves / Jane Yolen -- The vulture / Hilaire Belloc -- Vole / Christine Crow -- A warbler / Walter de la Mare -- Wasps / Dorothy Aldis -- The waterbeetle / Hilaire Belloc -- Woodpecker in disguise / Grace Taber Hallock -- Xyleborus / Jane Yolen -- Xiphas gladius / Christine Crow -- The yak / Hilaire Belloc -- Zemmi / Christine Crow -- Zebu / Jane Yolen -- Zebra / Isak Dinesen. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Juvenile poetry.
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Children's poetry.
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Animals -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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Alphabet.
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Animals. (OCoLC)fst00809468
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Children's poetry. (OCoLC)fst00856335
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Animals -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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Nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Yolen, Jane.
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Eitzen, Allan, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alphabestiary. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press ; [New York] : Distributed by St Martin's Press, 1995 (OCoLC)760968159 |
| ISBN |
1563972220 |
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9781563972225 |
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