Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Crocodile sweats and other animal poems.

Jukka Itkonen 2010: Krokotiili hikoaa ja muita eläinrunoja
Illustrated by Matti Pikkujämsä

Scissorhands
These animals are kind of funny: one has ears as cabbage leaves, other is all neck. The savanna is shaking and the jungle is rutling. Who does not eat porridge, or algae? What scares a crocodile? In this book African animals live their lives in full and vivid colors. A real good will book.


The book has following poems:
Ten monkeys,
Rainbow shirt,
Horse in river,
What is it?,
Lodger of wetlands,
Long trunk,
Armadillo,
Turtle,
Giraffe,
Parrot,
Scissorhands,
Scorpion,
Crocodile and children,
 Shy fish,
Hawk and Accipiter,
Bee dance, goats,
Donkey,
Is that true?,
Snail waddles,
This and that happens,
Termite’s nest,
Bat,
Hyena,
Gazelle,
Big cat sleeps,
Jaguar,
Buffalo’s brother,
Little bird poem,
Crocodile sweats,
Zebra in the sun.

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