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Kinerk, Robert

Oh, How Sylvester Can Pester!: And Other Poems More or Less About Manners

32 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-3362-5 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Drazen Kozjan. Kinerk covers all sorts of etiquette-related behavior (including adults forgetting to use the manners they demand of children) in poems that are varied and funny; along the way readers should also find themselves picking up a tip or two. Kozjan's digital illustrations look slightly retro and feature a multicultural cast of characters, each with spindly limbs and a highly expressive face.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011