Bibliograph

Last laughs, animal epitaphs, J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins

Type

Label

Last laughs, animal epitaphs, J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Last laughs

Oclc number

732967818

Responsibility statement

J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins

Sub title

animal epitaphs

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

juvenile

Contributor

Creator