In this brilliant, modern take on Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem Jabberwocky, Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers transports readers straight to an urban basketball court. The Jabberwocky, a dauntingly large, seven-fingered player built to deflect every throw of his opponent, goes up against our nimble hero in a winner-take-all game of one-on-one b-ball.

“Here comes a bunny / The first to stray / Out of April / And into May.” Award-winning artist Wendell Minor brings new life to five poems by the author of Goodnight Moon in his warm, colorful pictures, full of soft, furry rabbits and the beautiful world they live in.

As the sun rises over the quiet yard, a woodpecker taps 10 times on the pine tree. Mourning doves on the telephone wires coo to each other 9 times; sparrows chirp 8 times as they race to the bird feeder, and so on through the day until the hummingbird makes 1 tiny sound and zigzags away for the night.

So read some to yourself, or with a friend, or two, or three, And discover just how much fun poetry out loud can be!"