the swamps of sleethe, book talk
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By Jack PrelutskyIllustrated by Jimmy Pickering
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Imagine new worlds of excitement!
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Filled with new life and adventure.
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Full of trees and flowers,
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Bugs, robots, and other beings
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But what if things were not as they seem…
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What if every step you took could be your last?
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What if you froze and “shatter into bits”? “No human being can survive The cold of Drifig Prime,…”
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“When you’re on Grob, you undergo A cataclysmic change Beyond your understanding,…”
Never able to leave, you will have to see.
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The trees of Fesstor, alive are they?
And what about the planet Sarbro, there is something familiar looking about that tree.
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The bugs on the planet Gub, “…swarm upon your tender skin, And gnaw your nose , and chomp your skin.”
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“The monopods of Ogdofod” will catch you in their web and dinner for their pets you will become.
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A “savage monarch” eating alien bones on the planet Zazorzz.
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On Gazook, chowder for dinner, what is that taste?
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Visitors to our own world? What do the aliens of Strovilean think of planet Earth?
One will have to read to see.
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Exerts and some images taken from, Prelutsky, Jack; Pickering, Jimmy (2011-02-16). The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System. Knopf Books for Young Readers. Kindle Edition.