Jack Prelutsky's The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders is a collection of poetry that appeals to a younger audience. Almost all of the rhymes are 2-3 stanzas with four lines each. This format is accessible to young readers and especially listeners. Alliteration is used in the characters' names such as, "Granny Gooding", "Sarah Small", "Jenny Jay", "Peanut Peg", and "Peanut Pete". Devices such as these make these poems fun to read aloud.

In each selection, a simple story is told start to finish, making them ripe for conversation between children and between child and adult. Another favorite device that Prelutsky uses is internal rhyme in lines like, "...a sweet little house for a mouse and a spouse". his creates a simple beat that makes children smile.

In the title poem, animals quack, croak, oink, and cluck. These types of words beg to be...well, quacked, croaked, oinked, and clucked. Any time these kinds of sounds can be made out loud, laughs are sure to follow! Another fun element is that Prelutsky uses the names of many cities across the United States in his work. Just some of the cities we hear mentioned are Buffalo, Ft. Myers, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fort Worth, and San Jose. Hearing your hometown in a poem just adds to the personal experience.

The illustrations are simple and colorful, appropriate to the audience without being boring or too "babyish". This collection, with its frequent use of animals as characters, would be a great introduction to poetry for children.