World Rat Day

Poems About Real Holidays
You've Never Heard Of

by J. Patrick Lewis
published by Candlewick Press

Available at:
Bookshop.org
Amazon

AWARDS
- The Original Art, Society of Illustrators
- American Illustration 32
- 3 x 3 Magazine
- Picture This! Danforth Museum of Art
- A Bank Street College Best Children's Book
- A NCTE Notable Poetry Book

“Raff’s loose washes with ink details exude personality and humor…in this gleefully silly crowd-pleaser.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Funny from start to finish, these superbly crafted poems and inventive illustrations celebrate the extraordinary, odd, and seldom heard of holidays that the elementary-school crowd will love. Raff’s intelligent artwork adds to the lighthearted play with many surprises…The entire book is such fun that children will will want to shout, “It’s J. Patrick Lewis Day!”
—School Library Journal

“These 26 selections … will tickle the funny bones of even those who are poem-phobic. Coupling the words of Children’s Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis with the loosely composed cartoons of Anna Raff ramps up the fun. Everywhere you look, there’s one more raffish rat doing nonsensical (and occasionally naughty) things.”
—The Washington Post

ACTIVITY
How to Draw a Rat with Anna Raff