Hypnotize a Tiger
Poems About Just About Everything
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
This is the first longer-format, middle-grade collection from #1 New York Times-bestselling author-illustrator Calef Brown. Moving away from the picture book format offers Calef the opportunity to tackle a variety of themes and poetry styles as well as reach a slightly older audience. Hypnotize a Tiger is chock-full of Calef's zany black-and-white artwork and features his wonderfully inventive characters and worlds-from the "completely nonviolent and silent" Lou Gnome to Percival, the impetuous (and none-too-sensible) lad who believes he is invincible, to Hugh Jarm (who has a huge arm, natch!). It's a whimsical world: creative, fun, and inspiring!
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Brown writes and illustrates playfully matter-of-fact poems that feature peculiar animals, creatures, and humans, drawn with chalky outlines and expressive eyes. Categories of poems include "The Critterverse," "Schoolishness," and "Word Crashes," a section featuring nouveau portmanteau words ("This Grouchyoungorilla/ hasn't gotten very far./ Some thoughtless thug/ has just unplugged/ his nicelectricar"). Beneath the framed central images, Brown doesn't let the bottom edge of the pages go to waste, filling them with mini-scenes and jokes connected to the poems above. Full of absurdity and off-kilter musings ("I think I need a forklift/ to lift my backpack./ So many textbooks/ in my knapsack,/ I fear a back-snap"), Brown's collection offers a zingy introduction to the silly side of poetry. Ages 8 12.
