J. Patrick Lewis

"Elephants, with their matriarchal societies, long memories, and demonstrations of emotional connections, are some of the world's most treasured animals. However, they are also among the most threatened. It is up to humans to protect them before it is too late"--

From the Children's Poet Laureate comes a year-round ode to wacky holidays just begging to be celebrated.

Poems celebrate human efforts to fly, not all of them successful, from the myth of Icarus through the Montgolfiers' balloon and the Wright Brothers' first plane to the space shuttle Columbia, accompanied by information about each aircraft.