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Children’s Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky knows how to grab his audience. The poems in It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles are geared toward a much younger age bracket than myself but my raggedy aged self could still appreciate a good gross-out poem or a weird animals-that-don’t-exist poem. My introduction to this book, strangely, happened at just the right time. I checked this book out while trying to recover from the flu. During my convalescence, I felt too wretched to concentrate on anything but really bad daytime television. Trying to make my achy eyes focus of any sort of grown up “literature” (including the word-fluff of a surfing magazine) was nauseating and impossible. But this could only go on for so long… I had to get some work done! Jack Prelutsky was the perfect segue back to a world without Judge Judy. The poems read quick, easy, and fun. Prelutsky obviously loves to play with words, and I think this could help young readers and/or listeners get a better handle on and pursue their interests in language.