Curious Creatures
by Barry Louis Polisar
illustrated by David Clark
$14.95, 32 p. color illustrated.
ISBN# 9780938663522
“A menagerie of mostly unsung animals should please young poetry lovers. Animal lovers will welcome the irreverent but informative verse.”
– Publishers Weekly
“Catalogs a random spectrum of creatures and the exaggerated cartoon illustrations in bright colors accentuate each poem’s action with humor.”
– School Library Journal
This new collaboration between Barry Louis Polisar and illustrator David Clark is a long awaited sequel to Barry’s earlier collections of poems, Peculiar Zoo and Insect Soup.
From the echidna with its two-foot-long tongue and the flying paradise snake of Borneo, to common earthworms and houseflies, this collection even includes, the most curious of all creatures, man.