Eric Carle's Animals Animals

A dynamic collection from the internationally-acclaimed author and illustrator of <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i><P>From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems and more. This celebration of the wonder and variety of earth's animals is "joyous...a book to be shared" (<i>Booklist</i>, starred review).<P>* An ALA Notable Book<br>* A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the Year<br>* An IRA Teachers' Choice Book<br>* An NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children<br>* A <i>Booklist</i> Editors' Choice Book<br>* A <i>School Library Journal</i> Best Book of the Year<br>* A <i>Redbook</i> Top Ten Picture Book<P>* A Picture Puffin <br>* Full-color illustrations <br>* 96 pages <br>* All ages