The Carnival of the Animals (2010)

by Jack Prelutsky, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
47	5	224,775	(4.19)	None

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

khedron, darkle, beckydj, ot1911, Ksouth, FriedXNGbooks, kaymcc, elfschild, eandino2012

numbers

show all

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing recommendations

see more recommendations for this work

refresh

▾Member recommendations

None.

▾Will you like it?

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 5 of 5

Z liked this . . . but definitely missed the Peter Sis illustrations of his favorite Prelutsky volumes. (

)

beckydj | Mar 30, 2013 |

The collection of short poems with different animals in a carnival. The CD brings the book to life with the classical music and the great illustrations. (

)

emleonard | Feb 27, 2012 |

Mary Lee Hahn reviewed Carnival of the Animals at a Year of Reading. She sold me with this: "this music and these poems together, make the music more fun to listen to and the poems more fun to hear and say. What a great way to introduce children to the sounds of language along with the sounds of the orchestra."

TheReadingTub | Jan 26, 2011 |

A collection of short poems about the different animals in the classical piece of the same name by Camille Saint-Saëns. There is an Introduction, The Lion, Rooster and Hens, The Donkeys of the Wild, The Tortoise, Elephants, Kangaroos, Aquarium, Personages with Long Ears, The Cuckoo, Birds, Pianists, Fossils, The Swan, and The Finale.

rwetherell | Nov 10, 2010 |

Collection of poetry related to the animals in a carnival. This book is wonderfully illustrated for each poem. This book is a great collection of new work that has a music cd to accompany it that also has readings of each poem from the author. (

)

JenRobYoung | Oct 3, 2010 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 5 of 5

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Jack Prelutsky	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
GrandPré, Mary	Illustrator	main author	all editions	confirmed

▾Work-to-work relationships

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical title

The Carnival of the Animals

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

2010

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Publisher series

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 037586458X, Hardcover)

A great way to introduce children to classical music.

America’s first Children's Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals, and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the verses. A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner, head of the music department at the prestigious Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, suggests ways preschoolers can act out the music—tromp like an elephant, hop like a kangaroo, glide like a swan—or, for older children, be creatively inspired by this joyful work.

(retrieved from Amazon Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:29:06 -0400)

▾Library descriptions

America's first Children's Poet Laureate and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books team up in a volume of rollicking original verses set to Saint-Saëns' classical composition that is complemented by a CD recording of the music and Prelutsky's readings.… (more)