The Animal Rescue Store

by Elizabeth Swados and Anne Wilson

Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Liz Swados shows her animal magnetism with this hilarious pet store poetry collection. Cats, dogs, turtles, emus -- there's a place and poem in SIDNEY'S ANIMAL RESCUE... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439554764
• ISBN13: 9780439554763
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

All It's Quacked Up To Be (And More)

This is one of the sweetest, most clever kids' books I've read in a long time -- made especially great by the fact that it is as amusing to me as it is to my 3-year-olds. For them, there are the wonderful illustrations, and the cacophony of animals and their sounds. For me, there is the quirky beauty and rhythm of the language. "The ferret's just/Fuzz with feet./His nose is a raisin/That sqishes and squeezes./I'd take him home /But I think he'll causes sneezes. Ahchoo Ahchoo Ahchoo!) ..and the thing is, it's just damn funny. In talking about the need to save and value animals of all types, it has a Message, but doesn't hit you over the head...and it's also touching without being cloying. How often can you say that about a kid's book? By the way, I think this book is fine for kids 3 and above. The younger ones may not entirely appreciate the book's subtleties, but they'll love it anyway -- particularly if you're good at replicating the animal sounds.