Put Your Eyes Up Here : And Other School Poems - Hardcover

Dakos, Kalli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689811179 ISBN 13: 9780689811173

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

When she first meets Ms. Roy, Penny isn’t sure that she likes her teacher’s weird and quirky style, such as her strange earrings and unusual decorating style, but soon Penny begins to appreciate Ms. Roy’s unique ways and realizes that being true to one’s self is actually the best way to be.

About this title

About the Author

Kalli Dakos is an elementary school reading specialist who has written many books, including Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do!: Poems About School; Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi; Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School and the Children's Choice Award-winning book, If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School; both illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Kalli visits schools all over the United States and Canada to talk to students. She also gives teacher workshops. She lives in Ottowa, Canada, and Sterling,Virginia.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5-Like The Goof Who Invented Homework (Dial, 1996) and If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand (Four Winds, 1990), Dakos's newest collection highlights incidents taken from her teaching days-here, mostly written in the poetic voice of a girl named Penny, who, from the first day of school, realizes that her teacher is unusual. Ms. Roys has a collection of plastic hands, and she takes the class on an overnight to the museum, where they sleep beside dinosaur skeletons. She wears unusual earrings, and has a pencil cemetery. On the 100th day of school, she fills the classroom with 100 helium-filled balloons, each tied to a pencil, marker, crayon, or pen, and she has a magic wand that her students may borrow when they need to think of fresh ideas. The verses vary in length from a few lines to a few pages, and in style from rhyming couplets and quatrains to unrhymed collective poems written in the form of playlets, in a sort of verbatim conversation. Some are funny, some clever, some poignant. Small pencil cartoons decorate almost every page. Students will relate to Dakos's descriptive recollections of incidents throughout a year in one elementary classroom, and they will appreciate her understanding of children.
Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0689811179
• ISBN 13: 9780689811173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Karas G. Brian