Jenkins, with his bold collages, does a marvelous job of showing each animal off to its advantage. The bull, "hacked-out, rough-hewn, from the planet's hard side," has its massive bulk placed against an intensely red background. Sparrows and pigeons cavort above silhouetted city buildings, while a cat winds its mysterious way through shadowy bushes, "like an old familiar spirit."
As for my favorite canine, Worth describes pugs as having "goggling eyes and stumpy noses, wrinkled brows and hairy moles." And if some people consider them "plug-ugly," perhaps that's because "for dogs, they look a lot like people." How true!
Pug and Other Animal Poems
by Valerie Worth
illustrations by Steve Jenkins
Farrar Straus Giroux, 40 pages
Published: March 2013
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I love her poems. And this book is obviously a three-in-one winner for you.
Oh, so glad to hear from someone else who loved this book as much as I do! Thank you for sharing.
I've seen this cover before, I'll have to read it. Thanks for sharing.
I love, love, love Valerie Worth! And I love, love, love Steve Jenkins! I didn't know they had done a collaboration. This is one I definitely need to get hold of!
I love this book!