Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Greenwillow Books, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780060823382 (trade bdg.), 0060823380 (trade bdg.), 9780060823399 (lib. bdg.), 0060823399 (lib. bdg.), 0060823380 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Reading level: age 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
"From suspicious hot lunches (yuck!), to pop quizzes (oh, no!), to recess and best friends (hooray!), everything you love--and love to hate--about school is front and center in this collection of eighteen poems by thirteen celebrated poets. One thing's for certain: there's no place like school!"--Amazon.com
005-010
CONTENTS
Going to school /
Nina Payne -- School bus /
Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Show-and-tell /
David L. Harrison -- Not fair /
Kay Winters -- Don't ask me /
Yolanda Nave -- Countdown to recess /
Kalli Dakos -- Drinking fountain /
Kenn Nesbitt -- Why the frog in our class is purple /
Kalli Dakos -- Cursive writing /
David L. Harrison -- Lunchroom magic /
Charles Ghigna -- Grasshopper gumbo /
Jack Prelutsky -- B-ball /
Carol Diggory Shields -- Classroom globe /
Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- It's today? /
Sara Holbrook -- When the teacher isn't looking /
Kenn Nesbitt -- We're shaking maracas /
Jack Prelutsky -- Far away /
Carol Diggory Shields -- If homework were banished /
Maura Lesse