"A menagerie of mostly unsung animals should please young poetry lovers. Animal lovers will welcome the irreverent but informative verse."

Publishers Weekly

"Catalogs a random spectrum of creatures and the exaggerated cartoon illustrations in bright colors accentuate each poem's action with humor."

School Library Journal

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Curious Creatures

by Barry Louis Polisar

illustrated by David Clark

$14.95, 32 p. color illustrated.

ISBN# 9780938663522

This brand new collaboration between Barry Louis Polisar and illustrator David Clark is a long awaited sequel to Barry's eariler collections of poems, Peculiar Zoo and Insect Soup.

From the echidna with its two-foot-long tongue and the Flying Paradise Snake of Borneo, to common earthworms and houseflies, this collection even includes, the most curious of all creatures, Man.

Available April Fools Day, 2010.