cover image THE FROG WORE RED SUSPENDERS

THE FROG WORE RED SUSPENDERS

Jack Prelutsky, , illus. by Petra Mathers. . HarperTrophy, $6.99 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-06-073776-4

In these 28 poems that alight everywhere from Tuscaloosa to El Paso, Winnemucca to the Grand Canyon, "the rhymes flow easily, set to a consistently bouncy beat that makes reading them aloud effortless," wrote PW . "The watercolors exude a puckish charm well matched to the nimble word play." Ages 5-up. (Mar.)