This book of poetry was wonderful reading! I enjoyed the illustrations as well. I picked this as part of my initial visit to the library as one of my poetry collections.

(non fiction, poetry, picture book)Collective nouns depict through word and illustration various animal groupings of monkeys, snakes, cats, leopards, zebras and the like. Though I enjoyed the illustrations in their vintage like detail, I found the poems to stumble off the tounge. Of more interest to me was the author's note that explained her use of collective nouns in the book and how some of the phrases such as "a school of fish" actually came into existence. My three favorite poems in the book were: "A Murder of Crows" because of the unusual choice of words in the title, "A Band of Coyotes" because of the intersplicing of Beatles' lyrics in the text and " A Leap of Leopards" because of it's unusual sentence structure being visually interesting. ( )