Who Named Their Pony Macaroni?
Poems About White House Pets
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Learn about presidents, their families, and their pets in this fun and fascinating book of poems, just right for poetry month in April or any time of the year.
A celebrity cow. A mischievous snake. A pampered raccoon. A ghostbusting dog. These are just some of the pets you'll learn about in Who Named Their Pony Macaroni? After all, the White House has been home to more than just presidents—who could forget the furry, scaly, feathered friends who impressed the press, guarded their charges, and kept First Families company through their ups and downs? Marilyn Singer's compelling poems and Ryan McAmis's mixed-media illustrations will delight readers with stories of the creatures who sat beside our country's leaders, and introduce intriguing connections between the animals and the administrations they accompanied. Just right for kids who love animals, history, or both, and includes more detail in the back of the book!
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Singer commemorates a menagerie that's furry, feathered, and even scaly, all of them "witnesses to history" who kept company with, and occasionally provided consternation for, U.S. presidents and their families. Beginning with George Washington's hounds, a new breed that he created, and moving forward through time, Singer employs an impressive variety of rhyming schemes in service of the parade of animal names: Veto, the heroic Newfoundland belonging to James Garfield; Emily Spinach, Alice Roosevelt's pocketbook-toted garter snake; and the titular Macaroni, Carolyn Kennedy's pony. McAmis's witty, ingeniously dimensional collages are a treasure, from a view of the Wilsons' sheep grazing on the White House lawn to LBJ in a pool howling with his beloved mutt Yuki. Ages 6 8.
