Based on a song of outrageous rhymes, I Ate a Cicada Today is a humorous, award-winning children’s picture book with CD. Each spread features a different animal or insect including such fancifully funny scenarios as, “I leapfrogged a warthog” and “I hid a giant squid.” The CD is a guitar/vocal performance by author/illustrator and hit songwriter Jeff Crossan who interjects each verse with a humorous spoken aside.
Each limerick-like verse in this book of goofy anecdotes uses evocative yet silly vocabulary to convey situations that are both nonsensical and imaginative. A thug mugs a ladybug, for instance, and a tall giraffe gets photographed— in sing-song poems comparable in quirkiness to Raffi’s...
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