Dirty Beasts

Author: Roald Dahl 

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Genre: Poetry

Grade level: K-4

This book is a collection of poems about unsuspecting animals. Each one is a story about an animal. It is very fun and kid friendly. The poems are all rhyming poems and they each tell a different story. It gets children's imaginations going and is really amusing entertainment. 

This book can be used during a poetry unit. It can also be used just for entertainment and learning purposes. It is very fun and exciting and really can help pique the interests of young readers to poetry.

The illustrations are watercolor fantasy pictures. They help the poems come to life and give the book an extra something special to make poetry less formal and more appropriate for children.