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Yuck, you suck!, poems about animals that sip, slurp, suck

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Yuck, you suck!

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poems about animals that sip, slurp, suck

Warning: this book sucks! It bites, slurps, and sticks too. Dare to open these pages and you'll find ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and the particularly sucky lamprey. Sixteen slurpy poems from Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple introduce a suction-filled selection of animals, and spectacularly sticky illustrations from Eugenia Nobati spotlight these stupendous suckers. Ready to find out more? Prepare to get sucked in and read on . . . "Introductions to 13 creatures you (mostly) wouldn't want on your leg. In a not-exactly-unexpected follow up to 2019's Eek! You Reek! Poems About Animals That Stink, Stank, Stunk, the veteran mother-daughter team works up a series of short animal poems (16, counting one on the rear cover), supplemented by quick nature notes in the backmatter, on an equally crowd-pleasing theme. As the roster includes butterflies, honeybees, elephants, and glancing mention but no picture of unweaned human infants, not all the creatures here will dial the gross-o-meter up to 11-but there are still sufficient suckers and lappers of blood, ranging from fleas and mosquitoes to vampire bats, lampreys, and leeches, to gleefully put anyone off their lunch. The creepiest critter here may well be the erebid moth: 'Oh, / tear drinker, / bird's eye / your / cup. / With your long / proboscis, / you slurp / tears / up!' And if those eyes are dry, the supplementary comment notes, 'the moth will scratch its host's eyes until there is a weepy feast.' Eww. Nobati leaves out the gore but otherwise does her part to crank up the jollity by, for instance, giving many of the comically caricatured creatures on view googly popped eyes, depicting a lamprey bringing its own ketchup to a group suck and showing a light-skinned human leg in thigh-deep water positively swathed in leeches. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Not quite as riotously entertaining as the previous outing, but it does the job."-Kirkus Reviews

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