In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
& Frogs Wore Red Suspenders

In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden, Jack Pretelusky. This is, hands down, my favorite collection of children's poetry. A tall picture book with beautiful illustrations and poems that take you all over the U.S. and beyond with whimsical characters such as: Ten Mice Went to Denver Ten Mice went to Denver an......more

I've been trying to flesh out my library's poetry collection, and this is one of the books I recently purchased. I also purchased Prelutsky's The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders. While the two collections are quite similar in content, I think I liked "frogs" just a little bit more than "giraffe." But they......more

Jack Prelutsky is singing and playing the banjo to the poems he wrote.......more

The age appropriateness for this book is k-2nd grade. There are many poems available in this book but I used this one to specifically talk about Alliteration in an assignment. This poem is alliteration because of the repetition of the letter “d” at the beginning of many words in the poem title "Danc......more

Borrowed this book from the library when I was getting another Jack Prelutsky book for Lily. I think Lily liked this one more--the language was a bit simpler and easier for a 2-year-old to understand, but the poems were still fun. The one about Sally sitting on a lilypad was especially good since I......more