Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, Jack Prelutsky
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, Jack Prelutsky
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Stardines Swim High Across the Sky
and Other Poems

Author: Jack Prelutsky

Narrator: Jack Prelutsky

Unabridged: 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/26/2013


Synopsis

Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky evokes both natural history museums and wild and silly fantasy. ""The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed.""—Publishers WeeklySixteen extraordinary imagined creatures inhabit the pages of this unique, inspired, humorous picture book ideal for sharing together, and for reading again and again. Jack Prelutsky reinvents many familiar and beloved animals by combining inanimate objects with them (so, for example, a pair of pants and an anteater become a panteater). Carin Berger's illustrations are showstoppers. Her shadow boxes and dioramas utilize vintage type, ephemera, and such elements as ribbon, cards, buttons, and wood and bring the animals to life. Read it aloud, read it together: this is a catalog of effervescent silliness and will undoubtedly inspire young poets and artists alike. ""The total effect is both whimsical and fascinating, with rich language in the poems and unexpected objects in the pictures to return to over and over again.'—The Horn Book Supports the Common Core State Standards

About Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky is the best-selling author of more than fifty books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block, illustrated by James Stevenson, and Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, illustrated by Carin Berger. Jack Prelutsky lives in Washington State.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on February 13, 2020

No rating, as this is not for the actual picture book, but for the audiobook. I listened to the audiobook in order to complete a reading challenge. The audio would have been better if I had had the picture book with illustrations before me. It would have been an entirely different experience. I dislik......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on January 31, 2013

To non-children’s librarians the statistics are baffling. Your average poetry book isn’t exactly a circ buster. It sits on the shelf for months at a time, gathering dust, biding its time. When kids come to the reference desk to ask for titles, they don’t tend to ask for poetry unless they’ve some so......more

Goodreads review by Lara on May 07, 2013

I didn't really love this. Or even really like it all that much. I nothing-ed this. Which makes me feel bad because I always thought that Jack Prelutsky was pretty great when I was a kid, and also because pretty much everyone else on here seems to really like it so far. But for me, it just feels lik......more

Goodreads review by (Mellifluous Grant) on January 20, 2019

This book was super cute, with great art work and funny poems I didn't want to put it down.......more

Goodreads review by Seth on April 19, 2018

Each poem in this book is built around a fictional animal. These animals are created by taking a common word and combining it with the ending syllables from an animal name. For example, Plan-das, Slob-sters, and Bluff-alos. The poem then details the traits of these fictional creatures. The traits ar......more