Moon Zoo.Moon Zoo Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Carol Ann Duffy was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002. , author Joel Stewart, illustrator Macmillan ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1405020490 A$26.95 14 pages Moon Zoo is a delight. Carol Ann Duffy's humour, her empathy with small children and her versatility as a poet, provide exactly the right words to stir the imagination. And Joel Stewart's colourful, funny and very attractive illustrations make this book as much fun to look at as it is to read. Mr four-year-old, in my family, found the idea of moon baboons flashing their bottoms at the human race suitably rude and hilarious. His six-year-old brother listened and grinned, and tried to pretend he was too old for this kid's stuff- -but he wasn't really. Carol Ann Duffy, like Ted Hughes before her, clearly believes that children's poetry Children's poetry is poetry written for or appropriate for children. The category includes folk poetry (for example, Mother Goose rhymes); poetry written intentionally for young people (e.g. is important and that they deserve the best. And rightly so, for how else can we foster the imagination, fun and delight which our children need to sustain them as they grow older? Moon Zoo gives children a wonderful new world to explore. The zoo-keeper is an eight-armed alien who clanks her buckets along the Milky Way Milky Way, the galaxy of which the sun and solar system are a part, seen as a broad band of light arching across the night sky from horizon to horizon; if not blocked by the horizon, it would be seen as a circle around the entire sky. . The penguins float about playfully in the Sea of Tranquility. Polar bears, hippos and elephants are airborne in zero gravity zero gravity n. The condition of apparent weightlessness occurring when the centrifugal force on a body exactly counterbalances the gravitational attraction on it. . And space craft zoom around them all. There are even some strange, nameless creatures lurking See lurk. (messaging, jargon) lurking - The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. behind rocks or peering over the edges of pages. Words and pictures--perfect food for the imagination. And not just for the kids, either! Ann Skea, Reviewer http://ann.skea.com |
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