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| Dirty Beasts / Roald Dahl : 3 of 5 | |
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8.26.2004
11:06 PM | Link |
 Another one of the short Dahl books, this one is full of funny rhyming poetry about all kinds of mean animals (although the title sounds a little nasty!). For some reason, this is a larger format book - about magazine size. Each poem has great color illustrations and takes up a page or two. I had a lot of fun reading these out loud, and I'm sure kids would love to hear them! All of the poems are kind of scary and funny at the same time - I'll bet a few of them would have stuck in my head in when I was little, but some kids just like to be scared, I guess. Lots of them have to do with being eaten - a pig eats a farmer, a crocodile eats some kids with mustard, and even an anteater eats an "aunt"! There's a hilarious flying cow poem, too, and you can imagine the last illustration on that one (I was pretty surprised they drew it)! Most of Dahl's books have some sort of verse in them, so it was fun to real a whole book of his clever rhymes.Labels: books |
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