A Penguin Called Samantha

About the Book

Laura Seeman is a talented poet who has turned her gifts to the writing of fables in verse. Whether Seeman is writing about balding chimpanzees, sexually ambiguous penguin babies, or other of our cousins in the animal kingdom, her work illuminates human behavior, and the poems sparkle and shine. Enjoy!

-Margaret Ryan, author, Black Raspberries

In A Penguin Called Samantha, Laura Seeman, always wry and wise, offers us a wide variety of tales in verse, depicting us animal clothed, in the tradition of the old fables. Laura exposes our greed, our vanity, our blunders, with a grain of salt, and a sly understanding.

My favorites: "The Parrot" who mouthed words he heard and knew nothing about; "Two Foxes Villanelle", an image of friendship in old age; and "The Cuckoo and the Rooster", each one needing the other to make his life seem sublime.

-Nicole Andonov, author, Portraits

[Laura Seeman's fables are] witty and delightful-actually delicious would be more exact. My favorite is The 'Hippopotamus'. And the art is wonderful, too.

-Chana Bloch, poet, translator, Song of Songs

About the Author

In the course of adapting to English ?The Educated Cat? from the Yiddish (by Nochum Yood), ?Quartet? from the Russian (by Krilov), and ?The Wolf and the Stork? (from French, by La Fontaine), Laura Seeman became enamored of fables. She began to write her own poetry involving all animals and their conversations, adding illustrations.

Ms. Seeman lives in New York City, where she continues to write poetry, paint, and play chamber music.