(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.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa. This exclamation-point-heavy collection includes twenty-one silly poems loosely centered on school. Individual poems are great to read aloud, but not all in one sitting--you'd get a headache. Bright, colorful cartoony illustrations of deliriously happy kids and critters fit well with the energetic poems, although the frenetic design and multitude of typefaces make it difficult to focus on the text.

Reviewer: Karen Watts

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Tedd Arnold. Twenty-three uncomplicated poems are mostly silly, and some are even gross. "Booger Love," for example, gleefully lists the possible uses for a...well, you know. In other poems, a girl finds herself holding a baby brother with a suddenly stinky diaper, aliens play Spaceball, and tooth fairies are no-shows. A cast of pop-eyed children, adults, and animals careen across the pages, extending the sophomoric humor of the poems.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute