Never Take a Pig to Lunch: And Other Poems About the Fun of Eating (Orchard Paperbacks) (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0531070980 ISBN 13: 9780531070987

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1998

Synopsis

A collection of poems and traditional rhymes about food and eating includes categories such as popular treats, disgusting eating habits, and outrageous table manners. Reprint.

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Review:

I Am Learning by Arnold Adoff
Snow-cone by John Agard
The Picnic by Dorothy Aldis
The Catsup Bottle by Richard Armour
The Vulture by Hilaire Belloc
The Worm by Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren
Table Manners by Frank Gelett Burgess
Picnics by Marchette Chute
Betty Booper by John Ciardi
A Fisherman Living In Deal by Charles Connell
Cooked Carrots by Nora Ephron
French Fries by Nora Ephron
Spaghetti by Nora Ephron
Spinach by Nora Ephron
Swallow A Slug by David Greenberg
Baloney! by Florence Parry Heide
Could Anything Be Drearier by Florence Parry Heide
It's Hot by Florence Parry Heide
What You Don't Know About Food by Florence Parry Heide
The Cantankerous 'gator by Oliver Brook Herford
School Lunch by Mary Ann Hoberman
Yellow Butter by Mary Ann Hoberman
Oodles Of Noodles by Lucia Hymes
Lasagna by X. J. Kennedy
Giants' Delights by Steven Kroll
Trouble With Dinner by J. A. Lindon
O Sliver Of Liver by Myra Cohn Livingston
Eating At The Restaurant Of How Chow Now by David Mccord
How Do You Make A Pizza Grow? by Eve Merriam
I Want My Breakfast by Eve Merriam
Peculiar by Eve Merriam
Eels by Spike Milligan
Said A Long Crocodile by Lilian Moore
Celery by Ogden Nash
The Eel by Ogden Nash
Experiment Degustatory by Ogden Nash
Never Mind What Kind Of Food by Ogden Nash
The Parsnip by Ogden Nash
Fudge! by Jack Prelutsky
I Ate Too Much by Jack Prelutsky
I Dribbled Catsup On My Pet by Jack Prelutsky
My Mother Says I'm Sickening by Jack Prelutsky
Spaghetti! Spaghetti! by Jack Prelutsky
Never Take A Pig To Lunch by Susan Alton Schmeltz
Eating With An Alligator Isn't Quite The Thing by Angela Sidey
Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty by Anonymous
Greedy Ned by Anonymous
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, Sels. by Anonymous
Mary Had A Little Lamb, %a Lobster, And Some Prunes by Anonymous
One Summer At Tea by Anonymous
Peanut Butter And Jelly by Anonymous
Peas (1) by Anonymous
Tomatoes, Lettuce by Anonymous
Arbuckle Jones by Peter Wesley-smith
A (pretty) Good Recipe For Pie by Charles Wilkins
Successful Pancakes by Charles Wilkins
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Booklist:

Ages 3-8. Whether the food is delicious or gross, eating is a sensual experience and a social one. Westcott has chosen 60 poems about the joy and mess of mealtimes, and her wild cartoon illustrations in very bright acrylic colors express the general uproar, especially when animal appetite collides with decorous table manners. There are poems about eating silly things (including eels and "A sliver of liver"), about eating foods we like (including "oodles of noodles"), about eating too much ("I know an old lady who swallowed a cow"), and about manners and the lack thereof ("My mother says I'm sickening"). Prelutsky, Kennedy, Heide, McCord, and other popular children's poets are well represented; so are Ogden Nash and other masters of nonsense; and there are lots of limericks and folk verses, rhymes and puns. The illustration for "School Lunch" may be the best of all, dramatizing the anguish of Hoberman's protagonist: "Each time I bring it / I wish I had bought it / But each time I buy it / I wish I had brought it." Nonsense verse like this is a great way to show kids that words are full of laughter and song. Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0531070980
• ISBN 13: 9780531070987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Westcott Nadine Bernard
• Illustrator: Westcott Nadine Bernard