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THE FROG WORE RED SUSPENDERS

Jack Prelutsky, Author, Petra Mathers, Illustrator , illus. by Petra Mathers. HarperTrophy $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-073776-4

In these 28 poems that alight everywhere from Tuscaloosa to El Paso, Winnemucca to the Grand Canyon, "the rhymes flow easily, set to a consistently bouncy beat that makes reading them aloud effortless," wrote PW . "The watercolors exude a puckish charm well matched to the nimble word play." Ages 5-up. (Mar.)

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Reviewed on: 02/07/2005

Release date: 03/01/2005

Genre: Children's

Compact Disc - 1 pages - 9780060758363

Library Binding - 1 pages - 9780688167202

Hardcover - 1 pages - 9780688167196

Prebound-Other - 63 pages - 9780606333177

Prebound-Sewn - 64 pages - 9781417701780

Paperback - 64 pages - 9780060737764

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