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| Ann Skea |
 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:00 am |
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TITLE: Moon Zoo
AUTHOR: Carol Ann Duffy
ILLUSTRATOR: Joel Stewart
PUBLISHER: Macmillan ( April. 2005)
ISBN: 1 405020490 PRICE: A$26.95 (hardback) 14 pages
Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
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Moon Zoo is a delight.
Carol Ann Duffy's humour, her empathy with small children and her versatility
as a poet, provide exactly the right words to stir the imagination. And Joel
Stewart's colourful, funny and very attractive illustrations make this book as
much fun to look at as it is to read.
Mr four-year-old, in my family, found the idea of moon baboons flashing their
bottoms at the human race suitably rude and hilarious. His six-year-old brother
listened and grinned, and tried to pretend he was too old for this kid's stuff
- but he wasn't really.
Carol Ann Duffy, like Ted Hughes before her, clearly believes that children's
poetry is important and that they deserve the best. And rightly so, for how
else can we foster the imagination, fun and delight which our children need to
sustain them as they grow older?
Moon Zoo gives children a wonderful new world to explore. The zoo-keeper is an
eight-armed alien who clanks her buckets along the Milky Way. The penguins
float about playfully in the Sea of Tranquility. Polar bears, hippos and
elephants are airborne in zero gravity. And space craft zoom around them all.
There are even some strange, nameless creatures lurking behind rocks or peering
over the edges of pages.
Words and pictures - perfect food for the imagination. And not just for the
kids, either!
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Copyright © Ann Skea 2005
http://ann.skea.com
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Dr Ann Skea, Sydney, Australia.
[ann@skea.com]; [annskea@zeta.org.au]
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