(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Edward Koren. Koren's benignly maniacal drawings are a swell fit for Katz's collection of a hundred first-person punch-line poems that riff on such subjects as hapless parents, irritating siblings, and belly-button lint. Unabashed pun pleasure, jaunty titles, and a fresh take on the puzzles and ironies of the ordinary world give this collection its energy.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Edward Koren. A girl gives hilariously bad advice on cleaning one's bedroom: e.g., "Always wait until your mother hollers, 'GET UP THERE AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM--NOW!' using all three of your names." Huget is uncommonly attuned to a kid's sensibility, and New Yorker cartoonist Koren's inimitable style--shaggy contour lines; beak-nosed, somewhat dowdy-looking characters--seems tailor-made for this mess-filled comic gem.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Edward Koren. These one hundred poems run the gamut from silly to moderately gross. Each is short and punchy, with some clever wordplay and many modern-day references along with plenty of jokes centered on the human body (e.g., young Shakespeare muses, "To pee or not to pee"). Koren's crosshatched pen illustrations add sly humor. Katz's funny thoughts on writing are appended. Ind.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke