The Carnival of the Animals (Prelutsky)

Welcome to "The Carnival of the Animals,"where birds and beasts and such behave a lot like people do! Camille Saint-Saens composed the musical composition "The Carnival of the Animals"in 1886 to express in music some of the silly habits his friends shared with animals. Jack Prelutsky , America's first Children's Poet Laureate, has captured the humor and beauty, the rhythms and cadence, the feeling of the music in catchy, fun-to-read rhymes. Mary GrandPre adds her own inventive embellishments to these lively animal verses with rich mixed-media illustrations that gallop, hop, tromp, trip, fly and glide across the page. A CD of the music is included, along with dramatic readings of each of the verses by Jack Prelutsky himself.