Poetry Party - Hardcover

Lansky, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671573039 ISBN 13: 9780671573034

Publisher: Running Press Adult, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of humorous poems, including "Daddy Forgets My Name" and "My Greedy Sister"

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Review:

Airsick
A Bad Case Of The Giggles
Bathroom Hog
Bring Your Own Lunch
Clear As Mud
Confession
Daddy Forgets My Name
Don't Pinch!
Happy Birthday From Your Loving Brother
Happy Burpday To You
Have To's
How I Quit Sucking My Thumb!
How To Delay Your Bedtime
I Love You Not
I'd Rather
Ish!
Jack Was Nimble
Manners
Measles
Most Outstanding Students Of The Year Awards
Mrs. Doodle
My Baby Sister
My Brother Won't Eat His Dinner
My Dog Chewed Up My Homework
My Dog Is Too Friendly
My Dumb Cat
My Greedy Sister
My Noisy Brother
My Prayer
My Puppy Loves Flowers
My Sister's Always On The Phone
My Thumbies
My Violin
New Year's Resolutions
Oh, Woe Ith Me!
Our First Kiss
Poorly Dressed
Rumbling In My Tummy
Say What?
Scrambled
Someone's Toes Are In My Nose
Star Light, Star Bright
Stop Sniffling!
The Teacher's Show
There's A New Cook In The Cafeteria
Toes In My Nose
Tummy Bubble
Turn Off The Tv!
Upset
Wake Up, Little Goldfish
What I Left Where
What My Parents Should Know About My Brother
What My Parents Should Know About My Sister
What's So Funny?
Where My Clothes Are
The Wrong Side Of The Bed
Yankee Doodle On A Chicken
Yankee Doodle's Monkey Ride
Yankee Doodle's Turtle Ride
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Kirkus Reviews:

This illustrated collection of five dozen short verses--on family, pets, school, disasters, advice--reveals a ham-fisted approach to rhyming, with odes to belching, the fried monkey meat, flatulence, barfing, and dogs peeing in the garden. Sophomoric humor has its place; the problem here is that the verse doesn't scan, and is utterly forgettable, e.g., ``My baby sister's/really swell./I love her smile,/but not her smell,'' or, worse, wooden: ``The winner for attendance/is Mary Anne McKay./She came to school on every day/of Christmas holiday.'' In the introduction, Lansky writes, ``In schools, I recite my own poems, as well as those of Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky . . . If you expose children to the most entertaining children's poems ever written, they just might like poetry.'' Exactly how he fits into the picture isn't quite clear. (index) (Poetry. 9-11) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0671573039
• ISBN 13: 9780671573034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Carpenter Stephen