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Beastly Verse

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781592701667 Author(s): Joohee Yoon Format: Hardcover Year: 2015 Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books Dimensions: 150 x 22 x 210 (w x l x h) Pages: 48 Pages: 4

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Description: Selected for the New York Public Library's List of 100 Best Books for Reading & Sharing A Booklist Editor's Choice for 2015 A Book Links magazine choice for the top classroom picks for 2015 '[...] A fierce and fresh bestiary.' -- STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly 'The main attraction, of course, is Yoon's stunning, exuberant artwork, and poetry classes would be well served by this superior piece of bookmaking.' ---- STARRED REVIEW, Booklist '...this gorgeous compendium is so stimulating that it's probably best read in the bright light of day.' -- Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal 'In Beastly Verse (public library), her spectacular picture-book debut...illustrator and printmaker JooHee Yoon brings to vibrant life sixteen beloved poems about nonhuman creatures, real and imagined -- masterworks as varied in sentiment and sensibility as Lewis Carroll's playful 'The Crocodile,' D.H. Lawrence's revolutionarily evolutionary homage to the hummingbird, Christina Rossetti's celebration of butterfly metamorphosis, and William Blake's bright-burning ode to the tiger.' -- Maria Popova, Brain Pickings 'JooHee Yoon's 'Beastly Verse' is very much about its pictures. Three-color illustrations of critters fill up page after intense page, cheerily aggressive, goofy, beastly-friendly. Yoon's poem selection is economical, intelligent, even hip.' -- DAISY FRIED, The New York Times Poetry and children belong together, and for a long time, the music and