Wild Brunch

Poems About How Creatures Eat

Illustrated by Giles Laroche
Hardcover
$17.99 US
0"W x 0"H x 0"D  
On sale Sep 10, 2024 | 32 Pages | 978-1-62354-394-5
| Grades K-4
Young wildlife lovers are invited to explore how and why animals eat what they do in this nonfiction poetry picture book collection for kids.

Explore how narwhals, jellyfish, hippos, piranhas, and many more species of swimming, land-based, and flying animals satisfy their appetites in a collection of culinary poems.

A creative companion to Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Poems About Creatures That Hide and A Place to Start a Family: Poems About Creatures That Build by celebrated author and science expert David L. Harrison and award-winning illustrator, Giles Laroche.
David L. Harrison is serving as poet laureate of Missouri. He has published more than eighty books, has been a keynote speaker or presenter at 265 state, regional, and national conferences in thirty states and has an elementary school named after him. David's first book for children, The Boy with a Drum, was released in 1969 and has sold two million copies.

Giles Laroche has illustrated many children's books and both wrote and illustrated If You Lived Here: Houses of the World (Houghton Mifflin). Every illustration he makes involves drawing, cutting, painting, and gluing--and often has seven or eight layers. www.gileslaroche.com
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Young wildlife lovers are invited to explore how and why animals eat what they do in this nonfiction poetry picture book collection for kids.

Explore how narwhals, jellyfish, hippos, piranhas, and many more species of swimming, land-based, and flying animals satisfy their appetites in a collection of culinary poems.

A creative companion to Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Poems About Creatures That Hide and A Place to Start a Family: Poems About Creatures That Build by celebrated author and science expert David L. Harrison and award-winning illustrator, Giles Laroche.

Author

David L. Harrison is serving as poet laureate of Missouri. He has published more than eighty books, has been a keynote speaker or presenter at 265 state, regional, and national conferences in thirty states and has an elementary school named after him. David's first book for children, The Boy with a Drum, was released in 1969 and has sold two million copies.

Giles Laroche has illustrated many children's books and both wrote and illustrated If You Lived Here: Houses of the World (Houghton Mifflin). Every illustration he makes involves drawing, cutting, painting, and gluing--and often has seven or eight layers. www.gileslaroche.com

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