Where Crocodiles have Wings is a 2005 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Bob Barner. It is a rhyming story where imaginative animals occur.
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| Author | Patricia McKissack |
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| Illustrator | Bob Barner |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book, Poetry |
| Published | 2005 (Holiday House) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 32 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9780823417483 |
| OCLC | 54425429 |
Reception
editCriticism of Where Crocodiles Have Wings came from the School Library Journal that wrote "Unfortunately, the world that this book depicts is one in which bouncy rhyme schemes are picked up and inexplicably dropped in the space of a single page, and in which meter is halting, jolting, and inconsistent. Also, some of the busy, cut-paper collage illustrations do not depict what is described in the text. Stick with McKissack's more successful titles, such as Precious and the Boo Hag (S & S, 2005), and skip this offering. "[1] Booklist also found the book a lower standard, writing "The nighttime adventure is less a story than a string of imaginative flights of fancy .. This is a far cry from McKissack's top-notch books reflecting ethnic culture; it's a mishmash of creatures with incongruous traits, fanciful but fairly frivolous."[2]
Where Crocodiles have Wings has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews,[3] and Publishers Weekly,[4] and The Horn Book Magazine,[5]
References
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- ^ McKissack, Pat (2005). Where Crocodiles Have Wings. Holiday House. ISBN 9780823417483. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Where crocodiles have wings". Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
- ^ "Where Crocodiles Have Wings". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. August 15, 2005. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
Bold and imaginative collage illustrations swirl and swoop against neon-bright backgrounds in this exploration of a nonsensical world "where surprises grow on trees." .. a rollicking, rhyming text
- ^ "Where Crocodiles Have Wings". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. September 5, 2005. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
Saucy images and rhythmic language await children who enter this alluring world.
- ^ McKissack, Pat (2005). Where Crocodiles Have Wings. Holiday House. ISBN 9780823417483. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
Exuberant cut- and torn-paper illustrations bring the nonsense scenes to life but don't quite counteract the awkward meter and rhyme of an often directionless text.
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