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Dirty Beasts is a 1983 collection of Roald Dahl poems about unsuspecting animals. [1] Intended to be a follow-up to Revolting Rhymes, the original Jonathan Cape edition was illustrated by Rosemary Fawcett. In 1984, a revised edition was published with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Publishers Weekly says "In Sidman's delicious poems, darkness is the norm, and there's nothing to fear but the rising sun". [2] Margaret Bush of School Library Journal says “Sidman continues her explorations of natural history in this set of poems about nocturnal life in the forest. As in her other collections, each selection is set in an ...
Each volume addressed different subjects, including literature — such as short stories and poetry, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes — as well as mathematics and the sciences. Starting out as seven volumes in the late 1930s, the series was re-issued in a new edition every few years, sometimes incorporating new volumes and re ...
Many of his books were honored by the American Library Association, including I Went to the Animal Fair: A Book of Animal Poems (named a notable book of 1958, and on the List of Notable Children's Books of 1940–1959), Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls: Poems (named a notable book of 1964), and The Birds and Beasts Were There: Animal Poems ...
“No monsters under the bed, no monsters by the window, no monsters in the closet,” I say, in my most soothing voice. My 4-year-old, however, is unconvinced.
In addition to storybooks, Wise also published an abundance of children’s nonfiction, including In the Time of the Dinosaurs (1963), Monsters from Outer Space? (1978), and Zany Zoo (2006), as well as several biographies of important historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Booker T. Washington.
Of all the mythical monsters, Frankenstein is probably the most famous. Brought to life by author Mary Shelley in the 1818 novel by the same name, the mythical monster was said to have been ...
Many of the poems in Turtle Island are political in nature, like much of Snyder's poetry of the late 1960s, albeit with a different focus than that of his earlier writings. With American military involvement in the Vietnam War coming to a close, Snyder's attention had turned from matters of war and peace to environmental and ecological concerns.