Author: Jack Prelutsky
Artist: Henrik Drescher
Genre: Poetry / Animal / Humor / Fantasy
Year Published: 1989
Year Read: 2002
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./ Dragonfly Books
Source: Purchased
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Some Bizarre Imagery)
Buy or Add on: Amazon // Goodreads
After reading various poem books that were illustrated by Henrik Drescher like “No Plain Pets” and “Runaway Opposites,” I have stumbled
upon this surreal classic called “Poems
of A. Nonny Mouse!” Now, I have read a couple of Jack Prelutsky’s children’s poems, but his collaboration with Henrik Drescher has definitely made
this book one of the most creative works done by Jack Prelutsky’s!
This book basically consists of several poems; four of them
which were written by Jack Prelutsky
himself and you have to find out which poems belong to him in this book! Some of my favorite poems in this book are:
“Jack Hall,
He is so small,
A mouse could eat him,
Hat and all.”
“Algy met a bear,
A bear met Algy.
The bear was bulgy,
The bulge was Algy.”
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck
If a wood chuck could chuck wood.”
I had been reading Jack
Prelutsky’s children’s poems for many years, so imagine my surprise and
delight when I discovered that he written a children’s poems book with
illustrations by Henrik Drescher! Jack
Prelutsky’s poems are as usual extremely wacky and hilarious to read as
each poem details the crazy activities that the characters in each poem get
involved in, such as one poem having a young boy named Ben swallow his wrist
watch and then coughing up the time and date and another poem where a
character’s head rolls off his head and that character puts his head back on. Henrik
Drescher’s illustrations are as usual wacky and bizarre and they greatly
complement the zany nature of the poems.
Some of my favorite illustrations by Henrik Drescher are the ones where there are half-human and half-bird
like creatures littering all over the pages, giving the book a frenetic
feel. I also loved the way that Henrik Drescher drew Nonny Mouse into
each page as she witnesses the surreal activities of the characters.
For children who do not like bizarre illustrations, this
book is filled with surreal drawings such as images of half-bird, half-human
creatures and characters that have small pointed teeth. These types of images might scare children
who are not used to seeing such illustrations and parents might want to read
this book before showing it to their children.
Overall, “Poems of A.
Nonny Mouse” is a truly fantastic book for children who enjoy reading wacky
and surreal poetry books from the great mind of Jack Prelutsky! I would
recommend this book to children ages five and up since some of the surreal
imagery might scare smaller children.
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