The Armpit of Doom: Funny Poems for Kids Contributor(s): Domingos, Rafael (Illustrator), Nesbitt, Kenn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1477590285 ISBN-13: 9781477590287 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - Humorous |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.32 lbs) 132 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Kids love Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry With their rollicking rhythms, playful rhymes, and mischievous twists, kids can't stop reading these poems. The Armpit of Doom includes seventy new poems about crazy characters, funny families, peculiar pets, comical creatures, and much, much more. Reviews Irrepressible, unpredictable, and raucously popular children's poet Kenn Nesbitt was spawned in the same cracked petri dish as Jack Prelutsky, to whom he is the natural heir. A title guaranteed to generate "No, wait, read this one " responses, The Armpit of Doom is more mayhem from one of the masters. Kenn Nesbitt wrote a book of poems Kenn Nesbitt's brain is the clown car of children's poetry. I don't know how they all fit in there, but they keep tumbling out, one after another, each one funnier than the one before it. I liked Armpit (the book) a lot. Armpits aren't my favorite body part. Despite the many warnings ("Please Don't Read This Poem ") kids cannot escape the odorous allure of Nesbitt's THE ARMPIT OF DOOM No problem. They won't want to Instead they will find "There's only one solution. Here's what you'll have to do: Tell all your friends and family they shouldn't read it too " What makes this collection most special are the contemporary details sprinkled throughout (the iPod, XBox, and Kindle, Red Bull, J.K. Rowling, scrunchies, computer woes). Kids will really love the clever nonsense in poems like "On the Thirty-Third of Januaugust" and "It's Fun to Leave the Spaces Out." Teachers, beware: theirsentencesmightlooklikethisforafewdaysafterreadingthisbook " Fans of Kenn Nesbitt will gobble up this new offering, which combines his infallible command of rhyme scheme with the hilarious--yet oddly contemplative--wisdom of a child pondering the world. |