Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman, 1988

This delightful and original book features poems written for two speakers about insects. Although my son wouldn't allow my husband and I to read it out loud, it was amusing even reading it silently. By the end of it, I was wishing Andrew Lloyd Webber would make a smash Broadway hit out of it (if it worked for Cats and T.S. Eliot, why not Fleischman and insects???). Newbery Medal. Highly recommended.