cover image Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud

Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud

Charles Ghigna. ABRAMS, $14.95 (35pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-4841-9

For a lighter take on the environment, clever poems about an array of animals abound in Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud by Charles Ghigna, illus. by John Speirs, a companion to Animal Trunk. Zany watercolors portray such scenes as a trio of fierce four-legged fighters up against the ropes of a boxing ring with a lone human spectator, clad in a wool sweater, in ""Do Not Bully a Bull"" (""Do not badger a badger./ Do not bully a bull./ Do not beep at the long-horned sheep,/ Especially while wearing wool"").