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Sad underwear : and other complications more poems for children and their parents
Title:
Sad underwear : and other complications more poems for children and their parents
Author:
Viorst, Judith.
ISBN:
9780689319297
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
78 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Questions. First day of school -- Credit -- Says who? -- Raggedy girl -- World of wonders. It's a wonderful world, but they made a few mistakes -- Morning song -- Will wonders never cease? -- Half moonshine -- Knock knocks. Sad underwear -- Hair -- Trust me -- Fairy tales. ... and Beauty and the Beast, once the spell had been broken, lived happily (sort of happily) ever after -- ... and when the queen spoke Rumpelstiltskin's name, he became so enraged that he tore himself in two -- ... and after a hundred years had passed, Sleeping Beauty awoke (at last!) from her slumber -- ... and the fisherman asked for no reward for sparing the life of the fish, but the fisherman's greedy wife was not content -- ... and while poor Hansel was locked in the witch's cage awaiting his doom, clever Gretel came to her brother's rescue -- Stuff you should know. Rights and wrongs -- Don't think -- Someday someone will bet that you can't name all fifty states -- Item of information -- Well, shut my mouth -- Segecreget laganaguagage -- Pals and pests. Wayne -- Phyllis -- Robby -- Joshua -- See the jolly fat boy -- Adventures. Exploring -- That old haunted house -- Treed -- The last cowgirl of the western world -- Moms and Dads. Our mom's a real nice mom but she can't cook -- I'm freaking! I'm freaking! My mom's gone antiquing -- What Dads do -- Special requests. Prayer of the good green boy -- I love love love my brand-new baby sister -- Whoops! -- Could we just forget we had this conversation? -- This little request -- When I grow up. When I grow up, I'm going to be a pilot, or maybe a TV star, or maybe a veterinarian or the president, or maybe a fishing-boat captain or a detective or a ... -- When I grow up, I'm going to be a practically perfect person -- When I grow up, I;m going to be a lawyer -- When I grow up, I;m going to be stronger, taller, smarter, braver, funnier, faster, harrier, and a whole lot better at soccer than my big brother.
Abstract:
A collection of poems that examines a wide variety of feelings and experiences from a child's point of view.
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