A collection of animal poems by authors including Rachel Field, Shel Silverstein, and John Ciardi.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Introduction / William Cole -- Wouldn't it be funny? / Pixie O'Harris -- The toucan / Pyke Johnson, Jr. -- Pygmy elephant / Spike Milligan -- The tiger / Edward Lucie-Smith -- The elephant / Louis Phillips -- How to tell the wild animals / Carolyn Wells -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Jim-jam pyjamas / Gina Wilson -- The giraffe / Geoffrey Dearmer -- Supper for a lion / Dorothy Aldis -- The hyena / Mike Thaler -- Old man platypus / A. B. Paterson -- In praise of llamas / Arthur Guiterman -- Are you a marsupial? / John Becker -- Crocodile or alligator? / Colin West -- Anaconda / Doug Macleod -- The bat / Theodore Roethke -- Growing up / C. J. Dennis -- The chameleon / John Gardner -- The song of Mr. Toad / Kenneth Grahame -- The whale / Theodore Roethke -- Seal mother's song / Rudyard Kipling -- Four furry seals, four funny fat seals / Jack Prelutsky -- The personable porcupine / Wilbur G. Howcroft -- Skunk / Ted Hughes -- Cat bath / Aileen Fisher -- Snicketty snacketty sneeze / X. J. Kennedy -- Old Hogan's goat / American folk rhyme -- The answers / Robert Clairmont -- Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth -- The happy sheep / Wilfred Thorley -- Sheep / Mike Thaler -- Pets / Daniel Pettiward -- The raccoon / Pyke Johnson, Jr. -- The tale of a dog / James H. Lambert, Jr. -- Big black dog! / Carol Michael -- The house of the mouse / Lucy Sprague Mitchell -- "I am home," said the turtle / John Ciardi -- Thorny / William Cole -- The mouse ate the bait / Mildred Luton -- Dimpleton the simpleton / Dennis Lee -- Life / Alfred Kreymborg -- Groundhog day / Marnie Pomeroy -- Always be kind to animals / John Gardner.