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Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge?: A Book of Wacky Poems and Pictures
93 pp.
| Candlewick |
September, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-0106-3$$16.99
(3)
K-3
Champion spitters, fish with legs, aliens, giant gorillas, and neighborhood bullies populate sixty-five plus poems brimful with irreverent, often subversive, silliness. In "It Must Be the Devil in Me" McNaughton unapologetically offers that he'd like to write nice poetry, "but I yam what I yam--I'm juvenile!" And kids will surely take to these poems for their sophomoric sense of humor. Lively watercolor pictures on every page add to the puerile fun. Ind.