Beast Feast

SUCH a great book for little dudes. Henry loves the enormous watercolors, and I love reading him the poems. Some are just a few lines long while others are about a page. My favorite is the rhea:

The rhea really isn't strange
It's just an ostrich, rearranged.

Henry was kind of upset by the lobster upon our first reading. The lobster, you see, is a mobster. Henry does not support organized crime.

Not as much science as I'd like, but at least no actual 'bad science.' Poems are more clever than funny. Good addition to a classroom library to make sure there are books about critters that aren't quite as charismatic.

Beast Feast includes twenty-one poems and paintings about various animals such as the walrus, anteater, lobster, whale, pigeon, camel, and kangaroo. The poems are varying in length from as little as two lines to half a page. While most have a humorous side to them, they also manage to introduce some facts about each animal.

This is a cute book with fun illustrations that I think children will enjoy, especially one with the kangaroo's baby peering out a window in her mommy's tummy. The poems are cute and easily read out loud. My favorite was about the mole and the idea that a mole doesn't mind that it can't see, because there isn't much to see underground!

These would be cute poems to introduce before a zoo field trip. You could have a set show more of index cards with pictures of the various animals. Each day before the trip, a child could come up and choose a card and you could read the corresponding poem. It's also a good book to have on hand for letter studies: K for kangaroo, W for whale, B for bat, etc. show less

Beast Feast is very much like the book Insectlopedia but it is about animals instead of insects. The poems by Douglas Florian are humorous and his paintings of each animal to go with the poem are eye catching.

I liked this book and the way he used words to let the child learn something about the animal such as the lobster being a crustacean or the armadillo having a shell. His poetry lets you see a picture and hear words that a catchy and fun which is a great way to retain information.

This would be a good book when learning about different animals and what is different about each one. It would be a way to introduce different animals and maybe have the students pick one to do more detailed report on when doing a segment on animals and show more make it a group activity. show less

I love Florian's work and so do my elementary students! The poems are funny and the paintings are fun.

This children's poetry book is full of short childrend poems which describe animals in a fun and interesting way.

This book of poetry is a lot of fun. I realy enjoyed the illustrations set to the poems.

This book would be a fun way to introduce poetry to young children. I would like to present the descriptive poems to the children and have them draw a picture to go with a poem they are assigned.

Animal poems. Very creative. My favorites were the Walrus and the Rhea...
"The rhea rheally isn't strange--
It's just an ostrich, rhearranged."
The paintings are also fabulous.