Four of the 12 poems I’d consider a “hit,” along with a few decent ones. However, I really enjoyed Nightmares mostly. I don’t mean the illustrations so much as the literary aspect. Nothing adult, just larger, perhaps more robust and beyond the target reading level. Prelutsky gives a bit of a vocabulary lesson. The first is word usage for a poetry book aimed at and written for children. Two main things jumped out across the 12 poems. We’ve got a fourth shelf selection, with a few “hit” poems among the 12 making up the collection. I read it, but you can’t find it anywhere. Yeah, this review is of a book I kind of read, just not in the published format. I could also a find a few, but not all, of Arnold Lobel’s wonderful illustrations. Thanks to several Google searches and websites, I found the contents of his long out of print 1976 horror poetry for children collection, Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. My earliest poetic influence from a very young age is Jack Prelutsky.
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