Last laughs : animal epitaphs

Lewis, J. Patrick. (Author). Yolen, Jane. (Added Author). Timmins, Jeffrey Stewart. (Added Author).

Summary: Offers morbidly-humorous, pun-filled, illustrated epitaphs for animals that poetically describe how they met their ends.

Record details

ISBN: 9781580892605
ISBN: 1580892604
Physical Description: print
31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Last laughs -- Good-bye to a rowdy rooster -- Chicken crosses over -- Hen's last cluck -- Tough turkey -- No longer horsing around -- Ciao, cow -- Final pound for a hound -- Grabby tabby -- Katydidn't -- Firefly's final flight -- Flickering moth -- The last of a staggering stag -- For a bear, barely there -- Woodpecker's last hole -- Mourning a dove -- Owl be seeing you -- Cooked goose -- Swan song -- For a frog: not a hoppy ending -- Double-crossed newt -- Blue whale blues -- A narwhal, foiled again -- Not gone on porpoise -- A swordfish's pointed end -- Barracuda's bite-size demise -- R.I.P. (really inattentive piranha) -- Eel seals the final deal -- End of a rattling battler -- Hasta mañana, iguana -- An infirm worm.