World Rat Day: Poems about Real Holidays You've Never Heard of

From the Children's Poet Laureate comes a year-round ode to wacky holidays just begging to be celebrated.

Nobody should ever forget Ewe on Ohio Sheep Day (July 14). No mata mata how hard they may try on World Turtle Day (May 23). If you've never heard of Dragon Appreciation Day, International Cephalopod Awareness Day, or Yell "Fudge " at the Cobras in North America Day, it's not because they don't exist, it's simply that they needed someone to spread the word. Luckily, the fantastically zany poems of J. Patrick Lewis and Anna Raff's equally hilarious illustrations have memorialized these holidays forever. So get out your calendars -- from Happy Mew Year for Cats Day to Chocolate-Covered Anything Day, World Rat Day (April 4) calls for a year-round celebration.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/12/2013
ISBN: 9780763654023
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.00h x 9.50w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/07/2013 pg. 58
School Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2013
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2013 pg. 129
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2013 pg. 383
Booklist 04/15/2013 pg. 52
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Superior,Well Above Average