I Brought My Rat for Show-and-Tell: And Other Funny School Poems (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) - Softcover

Horton, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0448433648 ISBN 13: 9780448433646

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers, 2004

Synopsis

You don't bring your rat to show-and-tell.  You do mouth off to the class bully, but only when you're safe at home in bed.  These are just some of the lessons to be learned in this hilarious collection of school poems-guaranteed to tickle any kid's funny bone!

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Horton grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut. She earned a BA and an MSW from the University of Connecticut. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a medical technologist and a social worker. Horton takes inspiration from Mother Goose.

From Booklist:

Gr. 1-3. Silly and gross, this title with 18 rhymes and wild, colorful cartoon illustrations in the All Aboard Poetry Reader series takes the fear out of learning to read and shows that books are fun. At the class party a boy gobbles cupcakes galore, and throws up. In a scenario many kids will recognize, Geraldo has "gotta go," and the picture shows him rushing for the "Boys." A kid insults the big bully ("your brain's a whole lot smaller than those cooties on your head"), but only when the kid is safe at home in bed. With the slapstick, there's an occasional note of yearning and loneliness: Tina does get a valentine--the one she sent to herself, just in case. Best of all is the pure nonsense: "There must be a gimerick / To writing a limerick." The lesson here is the joy with language. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0448433648
• ISBN 13: 9780448433646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48