When the Bell Goes: A Rapping Rhyming Trip Through Childhood - Softcover

Zetter, Neal

 
9781909991576: When the Bell Goes: A Rapping Rhyming Trip Through Childhood

Synopsis

Meet Mr. Shoutyteacher, as well as the school nose-picker (careful if he’s sitting next to you!).

What’s your excuse for not doing your home-work? Who feels like math is a number-filled mystery? What’s your favorite sport—football in the playground or risk the dangers of roller-skating?

Rap and rhyme your way around all the notable characters in school, not forgetting the members of your own embarrassing family. And look out for jokes as well as fascinating facts (true or false?).

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About the Author

Neal Zetter has been using poetry writing and performance to develop literacy, confidence, self-expression, and creativity in 3 to 103 year-olds for over twenty years and his book Bees in My Bananas won the 2015 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award. Emily Ford is a freelance illustrator from Cumbria and collaborated with Stevie Westgarth to create Troika's Aife and Stray: Seven Style Secrets for a Perilous Party. She has recently illustrated Riding a Lion, Coral Rumble’s poetry collection, for Troika.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The Dog Ate My Homework

The dog ate my homework Miss
At breakfast time today
I managed to complete it first
I’m sure I got top grade

He suddenly felt peckish
In one gulp wolfed it down
I can’t hand in my homework
‘Cause I have a hungry hound

The dog ate my homework Miss
He shredded it to bits
Then munched it, crunched it, lunched it
Sent it to the dark abyss

It’s stuck inside his stomach
It nestles in his guts
I can’t hand in my homework
‘Cause my mutt has scoffed it up

The dog ate my homework Miss
I hate to break bad news
Preferred it to his dinner
And his biscuits, treats and chews

I’m begging you believe me
I’m telling you the truth
I can’t hand in my homework
‘Cause my pet’s a piggish pooch

The dog ate my homework Miss
It’s never coming back
My literacy, French, science
Art, geography and maths

He certainly is sorry
I hope you’re fine with that
But think I’d better warn you...
I also own a greedy cat

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