1963
First Published
4.50
Average Rating
320
Number of Pages
Approximately 300 poems, old and new, about real and impossible animals of all kinds.
Avg Rating
4.50
Number of Ratings
10
5 STARS
60%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
William Cole
Author · 16 books
William Rossa Cole (1919-2000) was best known as an editor and anthologist. He was editor or author (or co-editor or co-author) of about 75 books, 50 of them anthologies. Three of his books were honored by the ALA: I Went to the Animal Fair in 1958, Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls in 1964, and The Birds and Beast Were There in 1965. He was an editor for Simon & Schuster and Viking, and a columnist for the Saturday Review. He died in summer 2000, at the age of 80.
