I read through Dog Days and The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, and skimmed through The New Kid on the Block, and found wonderful and silly poetry, and I could imagine snuggling with my son or daughter, reading through these and giggling at the imagery.
For example:
Cuckoo!
The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock
was wedded to an octopus
she laid a single wooden egg,
and hatched a cuckoocloctopus.
from The New Kid on the Block
Greenwillow Books, New York
Copyright 1984, p. 19
I giggle thinking about a cuckoocloctopus, and I'm sure my daughter would too!
In The Frog Wore Red Suspenders, there are poems that describe nature and different places in the United States, all in a very entertaining manner. One of my favorite poems in this book is about a little boy traveling in a balloon across Texas. This one would be great for teachers to use in the classroom, as after you have read it aloud, your class can discuss how large Texas is and estimate how long it might have taken him to travel across the state.
In The Frog Wore Red Suspenders, there are poems that describe nature and different places in the United States, all in a very entertaining manner. One of my favorite poems in this book is about a little boy traveling in a balloon across Texas. This one would be great for teachers to use in the classroom, as after you have read it aloud, your class can discuss how large Texas is and estimate how long it might have taken him to travel across the state.
Jack Prelutsky currently lives in Seattle, Washington, and has been writing poetry for over 30 years. I visited his website, http://www.jackprelutsky.com/, and it has wonderful animation and includes poetry and pictures to read, funny letters to the writer, and ideas for parents and educators to use his poems. I highly recommend checking it out if you have moment.
You can check out more of his work here: Jack Prelutsky on Amazon
You know, I think I'll go catch up with my daughter and read a few of these silly poems with her. You're never too old to laugh!
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