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40 pp.
| Dial |
July, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3201-8$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Robert Neubecker.
Each of these twenty school-related poems has a silly twist: a boy contracts "computer-virus fever" and has to stay home until summer; the shoe-hating music teacher is described as "easy on the ear, / But she's deadly on the nose"; it's the principal who roots hardest for a snow day. The accompanying digitally colored, black-outlined pictures are funny and appropriately childlike.