Ride a Purple Pelican (Mulberry Books)
Worth buying if: You enjoy Jack Prelutsky's playful rhyme and nonsense poems.
Skip it if: You seek long-form narrative novels rather than short whimsical poems.
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Summary
Jack Prelutsky's Ride a Purple Pelican pairs short, silly poems with bright picture-book pacing across 64 pages, offering laugh-out-loud images, animal antics, and surprising wordplay aimed at early readers and read-alouds.
Why this book now
This 1997 Mulberry Books title still delights classrooms and family storytime with Prelutsky's trademark humor and rhythmic verse for emergent readers.
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Best for readers who...
Good fit if you want...
- You enjoy Jack Prelutsky's playful rhyme and nonsense poems.
- You read picture-poems aloud in preschool or elementary storytime.
- When you crave clever twists, the setting feels fully realized and lived-in.
- You seek long-form narrative novels rather than short whimsical poems.
- You prefer fact-driven nonfiction over fanciful animal verse.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
Decided it fits?
Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780688156251
Worth buying if: You enjoy Jack Prelutsky's playful rhyme and nonsense poems.
Skip it if: You seek long-form narrative novels rather than short whimsical poems.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Very quick Low time commitment
At 64 illustrated pages, this is a quick, low-commitment read ideal for a single storytime session or a few bedtime poems.
What stands out here
This Mulberry Books/HarperCollins Children's edition emphasizes Prelutsky's poem sequence and playful language rather than extended narrative or nonfiction detail.
Best way to approach it
Read aloud with expressive voices and pauses to highlight rhyme and onomatopoeia; point out illustrations to engage young listeners between poems.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780688156251
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