My Dog May Be a Genius

This is a collection of poetry by Jack Prelutsky. I've read a number of his books now, having discovered him only a few years ago. I know that his poetry is for children, however, I can't help but love it. Prelutsky's poems are fun, silly and he's definitely not afraid to play around with words, whi......more

Ugh. Lauded as the "first children's poet laureate" James Stevenson should be a fantastic poet but these poems are blah blah blah. They all follow the standard rhyming scheme of the second line rhymes with the fourth or first and second rhyme and third and fourth rhyme. Shel Silverstein wrote funny......more

My Dog May Be a Genius is a collection of children poetry by Jack Prelutsky. This book is filled with fun, easy poetry that children and adults would both love! Each pome tells a little story about a forgetful elephant, or about two penguins that collided, or even about a dog that just may be a geni......more

This book has so many great and funny poems. It will help children see poetry as not just something they have to sit through, but as something they can enjoy and laugh at. It is not just funny but also quite creative and will have their imaginations going. You can read about an absentminded elephan......more

A great collection for kids. Such silly, improbable poems. I love Prelutsky's wide, varied vocabulary. My favorite poems are "the View from Here," "If You Were a Rhinoceros," "One Day in the Woods," "A Fox Has Caught the Chickens," "Some Chickens," "The Average Hippopotamus," and "I'm Dancing with M......more