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ANIMALS
THAT OUGHT TO BE If you dreamed up
a new kind of animal, what would it look like? What could it do?
In these imaginative poems you'll find animals that nobody has
ever heard of - but that certainly ought to exist. You'll meet the bright-eyed
Nightlight Bird who chases away shadows. And a Roombroom is handy
when your mom demands that you clean up. But some imaginary creatures
can cause trouble, - like the Nightmare Scarer, who's even spookier
than the bad dreams he frightens away, or the Leftover Eater who
just won't stop! Maybe it's a good thing that animals are the
way they are. Each poem in this
collection is paired with a striking painting by renowned artist
Leonard Baskin, and will inspire young readers to invent their
own animals that ought to be. "Michelson’s
poems address children’s fears, concerns and everyday problems
through imagination and fantasy." "The poems
have a delightful musical quality, the lilt punctuated by an occasional
twist of the unexpected..." "Imaginative
and colorful, nonsensical and clever... both the poems and the art
are strong." "Witty,
wonderfully inventive rhymed couplets. Michelson is a poet who can
really get into the head of a child, whatever the mood: curious,
angry, jealous, frustrated, frightened, ... all of it." "Fourteen
animal oddities are given imaginative reality in a collection of
light verse interpreted in brilliant expressionistic paintings..."
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