How the Alligator Missed Breakfast

by Galway Kinnell, Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator)

Elp the Alligator has so many adventures one morning that he can't manage to eat breakfast.

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Kinnell studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948. He later obtained a Master's degree from the University of Rochester.

As a young man, Kinnell served in the US Navy and traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East. His first volume of poetry, What a Kingdom It Was, was published in 1960.

Kinnell became very involved in the U.S. civil rights movement upon his return, joining CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) as a field worker and participating in a number of marches and other civil actions.

Kinnell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for Selected Poems (1980), a MacArthur Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, the 1974 Shelley Prize of the Poetry Society of America, and the 1975 Medal of Merit from National Institute of Arts and Letters. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007.

Reviews

[Danielle LeBlanc · Rating 4 out of 5]

So fun. This mini-chapter book is very silly with jokes that recur through through the end and characters that are delightfully naive and bumbling. The artwork is pretty nostalgic to me for some reason and I can see Oscar giggling at this one for some time to come. Thanks Aunt Em!

[Lisa Van Oosterum · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was seriously one of the funniest children's books I have ever read...just plain funny!