![]() ![]() Zagarenski’s exuberant mixed-media illustrations use glowing colors, unusual perspectives and inventive touches such as tiny hats or jackets to make the animals even more appealing. Several of the longer selections incorporate significant information about the subject into the poetry. ![]() Many of the poems are small, polished gems with tight, satisfying rhyme schemes a few meander along with unclear rhythm and some word pairs that merely nod in recognition without really rhyming. Her subjects range from the miniature (tiny spider mites or snails) to the immense (giraffes or mastodons), and she also includes a poem that explains the concept of extinction. ![]() Kumin, a distinguished poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, offers 19 rhyming poems that each focus on one specific creature in this somewhat uneven but beautifully illustrated collection. ![]()
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