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.