Dear Wandering Wildebeest : and other poems from the Water Hole / Irene Latham ; Illustrated by Anna Wadham.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1467712329 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9781467712323 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- Poems. Selections
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.6 L352 | Available | 33111008013928 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.
Includes bibliographical references (page 33).
To All the Beasts Who Enter Here -- Impala Explosion -- The Watchman's Song -- Elephant Digs for Salt -- Oxpecker Cleaning Service -- Triptych for a Thirsty Giraffe -- Stripes vs. Stripes -- Dung Beetle at Work -- Tree for All -- Lifestyles of the Sleek and Sinuous -- Dear Wandering Wildebeest -- Calling Carcass Control -- Dust Bath at Dusk -- What Rhino Knows -- Lioness, After the Hunt -- Says Nightjar to the Stars.
Presents a collection of poems about the different animals who come to a water hole on the African grasslands, including giraffes, impalas, lions, vultures, and elephants.
Age: 8-12.