{"product_id":"9781567923759","title":"Absolutely Wild","description":"The publisher first saw Kim Cunningham's artwork - and her father's clever and witty poetry - at an exhibition of New Hampshire artists near the company's warehouse in Peterborough. With two young children and bookcases brimming over with alphabet, animal, nonsense, and every other kind of children's book, it takes a lot to impress him. This work did; even an amateur could see at a glance that here was the Real Thing - both the rhymes and the images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe verses by her father, a New York copywriter, are original, catchy, and sophisticated (or as sophisticated as you can get writing about vultures, gibbons, giraffes, and gnus).  Here's just a sample of Webster's ode to the yak:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         A shaggy species is the yak\u003cbr\u003e         With hairy front and hairy back.\u003cbr\u003e         It isn't very hard to spot him\u003cbr\u003e         With hairy top and hairy bottom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         He doesn't mind that he's so shaggy\u003cbr\u003e         If he wore pants, he'd like them baggy\u003cbr\u003e         His coat's a frightful mess, and yet\u003cbr\u003e         You'd dress as he does, in Tibet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelow and beside here are some of Cunningham's prime specimens along with one verbal sidekick. If you are intrigued by the exotic, the colorful, the sublimely ridiculous, or the reductively sublime, this is a book to tickle your tailfeathers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE SNAIL\u003cbr\u003e     The snail's a funny little fellow\u003cbr\u003e     Whose body seems to run on Jell-o.\u003cbr\u003e     He slips and slides along the ground\u003cbr\u003e     And never makes the slightest sound.\u003cbr\u003e     He only has one foot, and so\u003cbr\u003e     His speed is very, very slow.\u003cbr\u003e         Still, moving at all is hard, you know,\u003cbr\u003e         When you carry your house wherever you go.  ","brand":"Godine, David R. Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052746785008,"sku":"9781567923759","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567923759_p0.jpg?v=1763765499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567923759","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}