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*Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems* by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, illustrated by Jeremy Holmes
 
Also by J. Patrick Lewis:

The Fantastic 5 and 10 Cent Store: A Rebus Adventure
Kindergarten Cat
The World's Greatest: Poems
Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku
Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
 
Also by Douglas Florian:

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings
Bing Bang Boing
Zoo's Who
Autumnblings
beast feast: poems
lizards, frogs, & polliwogs
Insectlopedia
Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems
by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, illustrated by Jeremy Holmes
Ages 4-10 40 pages Schwartz and Wade January 2014 Hardcover    

J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian’s poems describe twenty-one vehicles from the future.

There is the huge bookmobile driven by the Gingerbread Man, and the Mini-Mini Car which has a snag (no one can get out the door). There are Fish Cars with fins and Eel-ectric Cars that sail through the ocean and the Dragonwagon that can fly over traffic.

Some cars are made of paper, others from high-heels and bathtubs. The Hot Dog car looks like a weiner-mobile, but unlike today’s cars, this one runs on sauerkraut (and in a pinch, you can eat it—relish and all). The words are fun to say (The Sloppy-Floppy Nonstop-Jalopy, bananappeal, the supersonic ionic car) and the poems rhyme.

The pencil, watercolor and digitally colored illustrations appear as double-page spreads. The one or two short poems that appear on the page are bordered. One poem has to be read by turning the book sideways. Details that are not mentioned in the poems appear throughout the illustrations.

Both boys and girls can enjoy this eccentric poetry book.
 


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