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K-3
Illustrated by
Don Carter.
As in Wake Up House!: Rooms Full of Poems, Lillegard creates small, rhyming word pictures of everyday items. In this book the setting is school; crayons, books, the wastebasket, and water fountain are all given personalities in the verses. While the bright three-dimensional artwork is appealing, there is little variation in the format and rhythm of the poems.