A Pizza the Size of the Sun
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 26, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- Clever, funny verse rewards dipping in anywhere—and reading a favorite again.
- Themes
- Humorous verse, Whimsical characters
- Genres
- Poetry, Funny Stories, Stories in Verse
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From the best-selling team of Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson, here is another collection of wondrously rich, clever, funny, and delectable poems and black-and-white drawings destined to become favorites. Discover and enjoy a dozen duhduhs, a puzzled python, and the coolest teenage hippopotamus you’ll ever meet.
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Meet Miss Misinformation, Swami Gourami, and Gladiola Gloppe (and her Soup Shoppe), and delight in a backwards poem, a poem that ever ends, and scores of others that will be changed, read, and loved by readers of every age. Whether you begin at the beginning or just open the book at random, you won't stop smiling. “Prelutsky’s a natural rhymester. He has a keen sense of what tickles kids.”—Kirkus Reviews
Poems with a Wink
Clever, funny verse rewards dipping in anywhere—and reading a favorite again.
Come here for
- Playful rhymes, oddball names, and a backwards poem
- Black-and-white drawings alongside the poems
Expect
- A dozen duhduhs, a puzzled python, and more comic surprises
- Poems made for rereading, including one that never ends
Where it sits
| Poetry | 79% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 36% |
| Stories in Verse | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Animal Stories
- The Classics
- Stories About Divorce
- Stepfamily Stories
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- Girls & Young Women
- Funny Stories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Beginner Readers
- Authors
- Jack Prelutsky
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 26, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Humorous verse · Whimsical characters
- Reading lane
- Animal Stories