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The New Kid on the Block
by Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky was honored in 2006 by being named as the first poet laureate for children. His combined works have sold over a million copies and been translated into many languages.

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Jack Prelutsky

Scholastic

Softcover

7 1/2 x 9 inches

159 0-590-40836-4

1987

5 - adult

1 $2.50

Recognitions:

Jack Prelutsky is the inaugural winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award from the Poetry Foundation (Sept., 2006.)

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Why You Will Enjoy The New Kid on the Block

If you enjoy poetry, especially humorous poetry, you will particularly get a kick out of Jack Prelutsky's The New Kid on the Block.. Mr. Prelutsky has created more than 100 original poems which address the relationships between kids, be it between siblings, parents, about the new kid who just moved in on the block, about school situations, or about one's relationship with oneself. The poems encourage children to not take themselves overly seriously.

Synopsis

Some of the titles of Pretlutsky's short poems are:

I Wonder why Dad is so thoroughly mad
Be Glad your Nose is on your Face
My Sister is a Sissy
Ma! Don't throw that Shirt Out
and I'm the Single most Wonderful Person I Know

The black and white drawings by James Stevenson are descriptive in themselves. The poems are suitable for ages 5 - adult.

Condition of the book

This verse collection is a used copy from a personal library. A few of the pages have bent corners. In all other respects the book is like-new. There is no former owner's name. The inside pages are clean and tight.

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New Arrival

Brundibar is based on a Czech Opera of the same name. Brundibar is Czech slang for "bumblebee". With a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, set to music by Hans Krasa. Completed in 1938, the opera was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp. Krasa, who was Jewish, was also imprisoned in Terezin. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.

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You will find in this anthology so many of the well-known great poems--from Emily Dickinson's I'm Nobody! Who are You! to Caged Bird's Song by Maya Angelou. This is not a dry poetry book. These poems come alive as the meanings are explained by words and clever illustrations.

Jack Prelutsky has created in Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant a humorous collection of verses about an elephant whose trunk sports an umbrella, about armadillos whose tails are alarm clocks, and of ballpoint penguins. It is a book filled with clever rhyme and delightful pictures.

The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky