Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
And Other Poems

Jack Prelutsky - whose many collections of poetry for young people include A Pizza the Size of the Sun and The New Kid on the Block - delivers seventeen new poems in this lovely picture-book, each one featuring a very unusual creature. Whether it is the titular umbrellaphant - a pachyderm wi......more

This book is a collection of poems that combine an inanimate object with an animal—like a clocktopus, shoehornets, or a panthermometer. They are fun and goofy poems that have strong rhyme that could be used for quick read alouds for younger students. But, could also be used as an idea starter for a c......more

Behold the bold Umbrellaphant and all his friends with this amazing book of poems. You can see in your mind.. an elephant with an umbrella for a trunk. This book is full of wonderous life and creatures some have never seen before.Behold the bold Umbrellaphant...and read this book.......more

Poetry All ages reading level I really enjoyed this book because it was interesting to see how the author used the names of animals and connected it with an object. I like the rhyming in these poems, and the illustrations were excellently drawn. It would be a good read a loud for any grade if you are......more

The illustrations in this book are unlike anything I've seen before. They were truly captivating. The poems were very clever, even tying factual information in to the particular "animal" the poem was talking about. The pictures did the same thing. This would be fun to read with any elementary grade,......more