If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this tasty collection, J. Patrick Lewis displays the breadth and depth of his talent, giving readers of any and every sensibility something to make them laugh out loud. He stirs humor into an astonishing array of subjects—from animals to school to dragons to food. And he delivers them in a remarkable variety of forms, including riddles, limericks, nonsense rhymes, parodies, anagrams, story poems, haiku, and more. Baked in Lewis's brilliant imagination and sprinkled with Matthew Cordell's warm, witty drawings, the result is a collection to delight the taste buds.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In offbeat poems that include haikus, limericks, riddles, and wordplay of every kind, current children's poet laureate Lewis offers quirky contemplations, silly vignettes, and improbable events. Rather than rely on a single theme, Lewis smoothly jumps between out-of-left-field ideas: a dragon serves as a clothes dryer, Bigfoot laments that he can't find stylish shoes in his size, and an old turtle complains to the sky that there is "nothing new under the sun," only to have his claim challenged by a snowflake. The result: loosely integrated poems that can easily stand on their own. Cordell's pen-and-ink cartoons have an improvisational energy that complements Lewis's off-kilter verse. Ages 8 up.
