Prelutsky, J. (2002). The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders. New York, NY: Harper Collins Audio.

Brief Annotation: What a fun collection of poems! Prelutsky’s poetry is fun and silly. It includes poems and verses about a variety of animals and kids. There is even a poem about Minneapolis and St. Paul! The audio recording was also really well done—instead of just reading the poems, they are set to music and sung. This would be a fun CD to have in classroom for transitions or background music, especially if you had already read the poems with your kids.

Genre: poetry
Grade level: k-2
Readers who will like this book: Kids who enjoy music and silly poems. The poems are fun to listen to and the recording has great music.
Response/rating (1-4): 3 I really had fun listening to this recording. It was more like listening to children’s music than listening to poetry. I would use it as music in a classroom, but I’m not sure how well it would work for a straight poetry study.
One question you would ask before read aloud: “What are suspenders?”