  | Book of not entirely useful advice Author: Harrold, A. F. | |
| Price: $23.98 | ||
Summary:
Packed with silly rhymes and witty wordplay, A.F. Harrold's poetry is positively bursting with fun--and advice. But it's not always the most useful.
| Illustrator: | Grey, Mini |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (01/01/21)
The Hornbook (04/15/21)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 03/01/2021 *Starred Review* In this generous poetry collection, previously published in the UK, Harrold offers rhymed and free-verse warnings to, for instance, avoid tigers lurking under your toast, ducks in your soup (Why? “I sip the soupy stuff . . . / which tastes like the underside / of a swimming duck”), and the “mushroomy feetiness” of Granny’s Bourbonzola biscuits. Elsewhere he compares blackbirds and bananas (both “surprising, but not unheard of” pie fillings), wonders how to grow a lamppost (“Perhaps I’ll plant a desk lamp / and water it each night”), catalogs “Silences” (“Cat paws through the garden. / Butterflies in flight. / Morning daisies yawning. / the slowly falling night”), and invites readers to create their own cautionary admonitions after filling the blank spaces in a mix-and-match “Advice-A-Tron.” Grey’s illustrations capture the freewheeling spirit of the poems with bright and funny images ranging from a hybrid banana-bird and a predatory-looking collage of photographed toast slices to an entire mixed spread of cakes and very similar-looking rocks that, luckily, comes with a key. The author generously offers refunds to any readers eaten by tigers. - Copyright 2021 Booklist.
