Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System

The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System by Jack Prelutsky, Jimmy Pickering (Illustrator)
The nation's first children's poet laureate fills a galaxy with weird, scary planets: his 19 poems describe places and creatures you wouldn't want to visit.

2 comments:

Julie Roach/School Library Journal said...

...Science-fiction and poetry lovers should unite over this slim and entertaining volume.

Kirkus Reviews said...

...Taken individually the poems are pleasantly ghoulish-but all in all, this is Prelutsky in an uncharacteristically dark vein.