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Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
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Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems

Written by Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by Jack Prelutsky

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Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky evokes both natural history museums and wild and silly fantasy. "The zoology may be suspect, but the laughs are guaranteed."—Publishers Weekly

Sixteen extraordinary imagined creatures inhabit the pages of this unique, inspired, humorous picture book ideal for sharing together, and for reading again and again. Jack Prelutsky reinvents many familiar and beloved animals by combining inanimate objects with them (so, for example, a pair of pants and an anteater become a panteater). Carin Berger's illustrations are showstoppers. Her shadow boxes and dioramas utilize vintage type, ephemera, and such elements as ribbon, cards, buttons, and wood and bring the animals to life. Read it aloud, read it together: this is a catalog of effervescent silliness and will undoubtedly inspire young poets and artists alike. "The total effect is both whimsical and fascinating, with rich language in the poems and unexpected objects in the pictures to return to over and over again.'—The Horn Book

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LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 26, 2013
ISBN9780062224552
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
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Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky is the best-selling author of more than fifty books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block, illustrated by James Stevenson, and Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, illustrated by Carin Berger. Jack Prelutsky lives in Washington State.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Jack Prelutsky, the king of poetic humor, does not dissapoint with the book Stardines. He mashes words together to create silly creatures whose habits don't seem to mesh with our impressions of them. For example, the poem "Slobsters," begins: "Slobsters are slovenly, Slobsters are crude, Slobsters love mashing And smushing their food." The illustrations by Carin Berger need to be recognized as the book wouldn't be the same without them. One side of the spread is the typed poem, "tacked" to the page. On the other side is a shadow box type image with the creature in it. Examples of other poem titles include, "Plandas" (pandas who sit around and plan all day), "Tattlesnake" (rattlesnakes who tattle), and "Panteaters" (they eat pants). It's a laugh out loud book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Author (Last name first): Prelutsky, JackTitle of the Book: Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and other poemsPublisher: Greenwillow BooksDate of Publication:2012ISBN# 978-0-06-201464-1Price:$17.99Grade Level:Primary/LowerElNumber of Pages: 35VOYA Rating: 5Q 4P for ElementaryHighly Recommended This is a book of poems with imaginary hybrid animals. Each type of animal has a descriptive poem about what it does and beautiful artwork to bring to life the poetry. One of my favorites is the Braindeer. “Braindeer are very clever, braindeer are vary wise. Their brains are wrinkled and of a massive size.” Some other types of animals include the Panteater, Wedgehogs and a Tattlesnake. There is a very scientific feel to the artwork making the reader feel as though they are in a museum.I would agree with one of the reviewers about the steampunk aesthetic. What a great description of the idea of the poetry and the artwork! The artist uses a combination of paper, artifacts, vintage pieces, beeswax, wire, thread and wood. Once each diorama was created, it was then digitally photographed to prepare it for the book. This is a great book to use with art students learning about Joseph Cornell. His influence on other artists can be discussed. It has a lot of cross-curricular connections between poetry and art. Teachers can ask their students to come up with a made up animal, after reading the book, and then illustrating it with different mediums. Some of the text is quite sophisticated, so it would probably be better for upper-elementary and middle school art students. Actually, high school students would appreciate the visual art aspect of this book. But it would still make a good poetry read-aloud you younger elementary students. They would find many parts funny. I think this book is a great addition to a elementary school library.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Stardines is set of sixteen of silly poems with sophisticated illustrations that share equal billing with the text. Prelutsky's inventive rhymes and wild animal/attribute creations are set off by Berger's equally inventive dioramas created from found objects. The bouncing rhythm makes it an excellent introduction to poetry in the classroom or the home, while the detailed illustrations make for fun I Spy type games with younger children. The high level vocabulary of the poems is too difficult to be read alone by the beginning reader, but make great read Elementary age children will enjoy the word play that is used to create the animal in each poem, and could create their own animal and poem as a class activity after exploring the book. A valuable addition to a classroom or library youth poetry collection.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another entertaining collection of poems about fanciful critters in the tradtion of Scranimals and Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant with wonderfully whimsical mixed art by Carin Berger.