Eating My Words
And 128 Other Poems
Published on 5. March 2024
120 pages
979-8-7656-1925-4 (ISBN)
Description
At lunch, / I ate three cans / of alphabet soup. / An hour later / I had / thesaurus / throat / ever.
Brian Cleary brings his trademark humor and wordplay to middle grade readers in this poetry collection. Featuring limericks, concrete poems, haiku, quatrains, acrostics, and much more, the book is in equal parts entertaining and educational. Spot illustrations accompany the poems, as do brief notes about poetic forms and poetic devices. An exceedingly accessible resource for poetry month-and all year round!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Brookfield
United States
Publishing group
Lerner Publishing Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Eighth Grade, Reading Age: From 10 to 11 years, Interest Age: From 9 to 14 years
Illustrations
Glossary; Illustrations, color
File size
6,92 MB
ISBN-13
979-8-7656-1925-4 (9798765619254)
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Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Copyright Information
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- There once was a student named Sonny
- Said little first grader Pam Plunkett
- A great pasta maker named Freddy
- My laptop, with skill and finesse
- At the Bus Stop
- The Joy of Discovery
- I Can't Find My Thesaurus
- Robert Trebor
- Triceratops
- Piano
- My Three Dogs
- Where Home Is
- Lesson Learned
- Going Up
- Ode to a Commode
- Spring
- Bus
- Zzzzzzzz
- Gotcha
- Pun with Grandma and Grandpa
- Having Pun with My Friends
- Very Scary
- Spanish Lessons (Easy as 1, 2, 3)
- Syl-la-bles
- Early one Mother's Day, Jake
- A frog drove her car down the road
- I met a young spider named Deb
- Great-Grandmother's Pet Store
- Yellow
- It's Raining Adjectives
- Rainy Day
- Poem
- Winter
- We're Going to the Villa, Nell
- Jump Rope Song
- Horizon
- No Question, Mark
- Reversal
- April
- Nature
- Color Me Confused
- How Many Birds Make a Pun?
- Having Pun with the Family
- Eating My Words
- My Beautiful Voice
- The Gag Bag
- "Ahoy!" said a pirate named MARRRRty
- A man on a bus in Manhattan
- The School Microwave
- I've Done (Almost) Everything
- At the Muzzaloo Store
- Teachers
- Sharks
- Pencil
- The "I-Know-What's-Ailin'-Me" Blues
- Sporting Kids
- Tennis Ball
- The Giraffe
- Yummy
- The Mind
- Haiku
- What I'd Do if a Burglar Broke into My House*
- I'll Love You Till the Butterflies
- Deliver Me
- A limerick poet, Ms. Sheets
- Mom said that our dog's part retriever
- The C@ Was Out of H&
- No Wonder
- Come April
- When I Am No Longer
- On Opposite Day
- Giggle
- Jokes
- Spider
- Stop Awhile
- Biking, Mackenzie once rode
- A talented student named Haley
- The Trumpet
- Going Green
- The Glove Compartment of Our Van
- It's Grandma
- There's a Reason I'm Asking
- Bananas
- Relatively Speaking
- To E. E. Cummings
- Sleepover Party
- I Babysat (Once)
- At Summer Camp
- Where I'm From
- It Could Be Worse
- Quadruplicates
- Home
- My Brother Joe
- Making Ripples
- Joy
- Story Problem
- Translation
- In the Pockets of My Cargo Shorts
- Love and Peace
- You're Supposed to Be You
- At the Shore
- I Wish I Had My Birthday Ten Times Yearly
- The Day the Commas Called in Sick
- Forty
- How to Write a Cow Poem
- Grandpa's Hands
- Our Alphabetical Classroom
- My Cat Bytes
- Mixed Marriage
- Nose Flood
- My Beagle's Breath Smells Nothing Like a Rose
- If I Could Dunk a Basketball
- I've Got Your Number
- Dead to Me
- It's Pretty Simple
- In a Fix
- My Father's Mustache
- Five
- Make a Wish
- Ms. Garcia and Onomatopoeia
- I Spotted a Leopard
- Snow Day
- Scenes from the Hallway
- My Dream in Rhyme
- It's Complicated
- Can't Wait Till Next Year
- CAT-atonic
- A Recipe for Poetry
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
- Further Reading
- Index of Poetic Forms
- Back Cover
