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Illus. in full color. In this exuberant sequel to Poems of A. Nonny Mouse,Ms. Mouse has again enlisted the assistance of Jack Prelutsky to help her reclaim poems previously attributed to "Anonymous." Here are 52 more of her easiest-to-memorize poems--the kind kids love to say over and over again--plus four of Jack's very own. "There's something here for every taste--all enlivened by Marjorie Priceman's fluid, inviting watercolors."--(starred) Horn Book. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Notes
Jack Prelutsky, born on September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, is primarily known as a poet for children but he is also a gifted musician, actor, photographer, sculptor and potter. Prelutsky studied at Hunter College for two years. He proposed to his future wife, Carolynn, on the day they met; she accepted the next day.
While growing up in Brooklyn, Prelutsky studied voice at The High School of Music and Art in New York and first planned to be an opera singer. However, he decided he did not have the drive to sing opera, and he became a folk singer. Later he tried his hand at drawing. For fun, he wrote some short poems and made some drawings, which became his first publication. He has since published numerous books of illustrated poetry and also provided illustrations for books by other writers, including many in translation.
Prelutsky never condescends to his young readers. He deals in verse with many imaginative creatures, but he also writes about people and problems such bullies, school, and fear of the dark. He is aware of the sound of his words and likes to perform his poetry to the accompaniment of the guitar. He visits schools and libraries to perform his work.
Jack Prelutsky is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1977 The Children's Book Council honored him for Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. His other award-winners are The Mean Old Mean Hyena, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight, and The New Kid on the Block. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children's Poet Laureate award. His book Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) won the 2007 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award of the Washington State Book Awards in the Picture Book category.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Jack Prelutsky, born on September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, is primarily known as a poet for children but he is also a gifted musician, actor, photographer, sculptor and potter. Prelutsky studied at Hunter College for two years. He proposed to his future wife, Carolynn, on the day they met; she accepted the next day.
While growing up in Brooklyn, Prelutsky studied voice at The High School of Music and Art in New York and first planned to be an opera singer. However, he decided he did not have the drive to sing opera, and he became a folk singer. Later he tried his hand at drawing. For fun, he wrote some short poems and made some drawings, which became his first publication. He has since published numerous books of illustrated poetry and also provided illustrations for books by other writers, including many in translation.
Prelutsky never condescends to his young readers. He deals in verse with many imaginative creatures, but he also writes about people and problems such bullies, school, and fear of the dark. He is aware of the sound of his words and likes to perform his poetry to the accompaniment of the guitar. He visits schools and libraries to perform his work.
Jack Prelutsky is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1977 The Children's Book Council honored him for Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. His other award-winners are The Mean Old Mean Hyena, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight, and The New Kid on the Block. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children's Poet Laureate award. His book Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) won the 2007 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award of the Washington State Book Awards in the Picture Book category.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (10)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 4-- Prelutsky has produced another, possibly even more appealing, compilation than his Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (Knopf, 1989). As in the original collection, he includes a quartet of his own verses with plenty of poems and limericks by his prolific bespectacled pipsqueak of a partner, who is never without her Mary Poppins umbrella and her feather pen. Henrik Drescher illustrated the first anthology with signature aplomb. Here, Priceman's particularly pleasing paintings feature a profusion of expressive watercolor personages who pose, prance, and pirouette across the pastel pages. The poems are playful and often punny, and the perky pictures provide the perfect accompaniment. A priceless performance. Encore! --Luann Toth, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's ``been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese'' and ``put away something for her old age.'' Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous ``Ooey Gooey,'' the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of ``Row, Row, Row Your Boat'' that concludes with ``Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream.'' Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive. Bird-beaked sunflowers fly through clouds, clothes are draped on a moose's antlers, and the green ``three-toed tree toad'' spurns a beribboned two-toed tree-toad shown bearing a valentine and flowers. Ms. Mouse, on the jacket depicted riding a cat with cowlike markings over a crescent moon, can be located in similarly larky poses at each turn of the page. Ages 4-10. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
An attractive new collection of old favorites includes four original works by Prelutsky as an added bonus. Designed more for browsing than ready reference, the selections are incorporated into picture-book format and loosely categorized in related groupings. There is something here for every taste -- all enlivened by Priceman's fluid, inviting watercolors. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The much overlooked Ms. Mouse, whose Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (1989) was an ALA Notable, reappears with another collection of comic verse often attributed to ``Anonymous'' (plus four entries claimed to be the work of her compiler). Informally grouped by subject, with several entries sharing each spread (various fantastical events occur in the sea around Noah's Ark, including Prelutsky's ``Tiny surfer,/Bold and brave,/Surfed upon/A microwave''), the verses include much that's long familiar as well as some of more recent vintage (``Methuselah ate what he found on his plate''--and never counted calories). Priceman's illustrations, singing with color and lively with activity, have a lot of panache; they don't have the marvelous wit and elegance of Drescher's surreal art for the first book, but they may appeal to a wider audience. Not quite as ebullient as Ms. Mouse's earlier effort, but still wonderfully welcome. (Poetry/Picture book. 4-10 Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 3-6. In the style of Alvin Schwartz's And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1992) and Prelutsky's Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (1989), this collection of short, popular, nonsense folk rhymes is illustrated by Priceman in a wild disarray of line and brilliant watercolors. Puns abound--from the book's title to the words and pictures that show a slapstick world upside down, flying, flailing, drowning, flying. The pleasure is in the physical immediacy of sound ("Ooey Gooey was a worm"), the movement ("I'm a dingle-dangle scarecrow"), and the rhyme, repetition, and rhythm. There are limericks ("Consider the poor hippopotamus") and enduring favorites ("I scream . . ."). The verses celebrate horror for Halloween ("Her teeth the longest ever seen, / Oh she was lovely, lovely, lovely") and vulgarity at the dinner table ("My sister likes to gross me out"). Prelutsky throws four of his own funny pieces into the brew and stirs up an anthology that's great for reading aloud and jumping about and joining in. There's no better way to show young kids the joy of words. ~--Hazel Rochman
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 4-- Prelutsky has produced another, possibly even more appealing, compilation than his Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (Knopf, 1989). As in the original collection, he includes a quartet of his own verses with plenty of poems and limericks by his prolific bespectacled pipsqueak of a partner, who is never without her Mary Poppins umbrella and her feather pen. Henrik Drescher illustrated the first anthology with signature aplomb. Here, Priceman's particularly pleasing paintings feature a profusion of expressive watercolor personages who pose, prance, and pirouette across the pastel pages. The poems are playful and often punny, and the perky pictures provide the perfect accompaniment. A priceless performance. Encore! --Luann Toth, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's ``been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese'' and ``put away something for her old age.'' Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous ``Ooey Gooey,'' the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of ``Row, Row, Row Your Boat'' that concludes with ``Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream.'' Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive. Bird-beaked sunflowers fly through clouds, clothes are draped on a moose's antlers, and the green ``three-toed tree toad'' spurns a beribboned two-toed tree-toad shown bearing a valentine and flowers. Ms. Mouse, on the jacket depicted riding a cat with cowlike markings over a crescent moon, can be located in similarly larky poses at each turn of the page. Ages 4-10. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
An attractive new collection of old favorites includes four original works by Prelutsky as an added bonus. Designed more for browsing than ready reference, the selections are incorporated into picture-book format and loosely categorized in related groupings. There is something here for every taste -- all enlivened by Priceman's fluid, inviting watercolors. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The much overlooked Ms. Mouse, whose Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (1989) was an ALA Notable, reappears with another collection of comic verse often attributed to ``Anonymous'' (plus four entries claimed to be the work of her compiler). Informally grouped by subject, with several entries sharing each spread (various fantastical events occur in the sea around Noah's Ark, including Prelutsky's ``Tiny surfer,/Bold and brave,/Surfed upon/A microwave''), the verses include much that's long familiar as well as some of more recent vintage (``Methuselah ate what he found on his plate''--and never counted calories). Priceman's illustrations, singing with color and lively with activity, have a lot of panache; they don't have the marvelous wit and elegance of Drescher's surreal art for the first book, but they may appeal to a wider audience. Not quite as ebullient as Ms. Mouse's earlier effort, but still wonderfully welcome. (Poetry/Picture book. 4-10 Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 3-6. In the style of Alvin Schwartz's And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1992) and Prelutsky's Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (1989), this collection of short, popular, nonsense folk rhymes is illustrated by Priceman in a wild disarray of line and brilliant watercolors. Puns abound--from the book's title to the words and pictures that show a slapstick world upside down, flying, flailing, drowning, flying. The pleasure is in the physical immediacy of sound ("Ooey Gooey was a worm"), the movement ("I'm a dingle-dangle scarecrow"), and the rhyme, repetition, and rhythm. There are limericks ("Consider the poor hippopotamus") and enduring favorites ("I scream . . ."). The verses celebrate horror for Halloween ("Her teeth the longest ever seen, / Oh she was lovely, lovely, lovely") and vulgarity at the dinner table ("My sister likes to gross me out"). Prelutsky throws four of his own funny pieces into the brew and stirs up an anthology that's great for reading aloud and jumping about and joining in. There's no better way to show young kids the joy of words. ~--Hazel Rochman