The Baby Uggs Are Hatching

By Jack Prelutsky

Book Overview

"Prelutsky, in a dozen breezy, lilting poems, creates twelve wildly improbable creatures and Stevenson matches them with wildly silly and totally engaging drawings."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068809239X
• ISBN13: 9780688092399
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

College student

This is a collection of twelve poems. The humorous poems are about creatures that are strange. There was a creature that gobbled up items in a classroom, including the teacher! One was a Dreary Dreeze, and this one needed to not squeeze anyone. The Grubby Greebles chewed gravel as they traveled. The Slithery Slitch, who was rich, rode in a limousine. This was a funny book. I especially enjoyed the one about the creature eating the teacher. The illustrations complimented the poetry well. This book will help to make poetry fun!

Ugg indeed...

A nonsense book of poems about imaginary monsters and the lives they lead. This work carries the distinction of marking the first time James Stevenson (the illustrator) worked with the ever popular Jack Prelutsky. A word of advice: Do not read any Shel Silverstein books prior to this work. Anything after "A Light In the Attic" is bound to feel a little paltry. While the similarities between the two books is striking, "Baby Uggs" is less impressive. Nonetheless, there's a great deal of creativity going on here. Prelutsky has fun with words and sounds and even becomes a bit risqué at points. Because the text is so short, this book will work as an introduction for toddlers to the world of poetry.