Animal antics.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Where can you find a bouncing bobolink bobolink (bŏb`əlĭngk'), common name in the N United States and Canada for an American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, related to the blackbird and the oriole, belonging to the family Icteridae. , swimming chickens, and a whole lotta hippopotami? In the wacky poetry of Jack Prelutsky--America's first Children's Poet Laureate poet laureate (lô`rēĭt), title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. . Some Chickens Some chickens love running, some chickens love jumping, and some love to swim in the ocean. These chickens possess a remarkable trait--each one is pure poultry in motion. The Average Hippopotamus The average hippopotamus is big from top to bottomus, it travels at a trotamus, and swims when days are hotamus. Because it eats a lotamus, it's practically a yachtamus, so it's a cinch to spotamus the average hippopotamus. The View from Here The view from here is very strange, the porcupines are flying. The crocodiles are laughing, and the kangaroos are crying. A bobolink is bouncing on a tiny trampoline, a panda's flipping pancakes--it's no ordinary scene An elephant is singing, and a donkey does a dance. An octopus is juggling a variety of plants. A centipede is sneezing in an armadillo's ear, and storks are turning somersaults--I like the view From here. Turn to page 20 to find out how Jack Prelutsky Jack Prelutsky (born September 8 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet noted for his children's poems. He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. changed from a kid who didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do like poetry to grown-up grown-up adj. 1. Of, characteristic of, or intended for adults: grown-up movies; a grown-up discussion. 2. who loves writing poems. |
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