51AhGyPK74LTitle/Author: National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry, edited by J. Patrick Lewis

Publisher/Date/Price: National Geographic, 2012, hardcover  $24.95

Length/Audience:  192 pgs., families

Deena’s commentary: One thing I love about National Geographic books is the great photographs!  This book contains at least 200 poems and most of the poems are not too long.  Some poems rhyme and some don’t.  I had fun opening the book to random pages and reading whatever I found.