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22nd out of 29 books
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A Funeral in the Bathroom: And Other School Bathroom Poems
My teacher's pretty slick, Has a hundred teaching tricks. Even in the bathroom stalls, She hangs poetry on the walls, And while I'm there all alone I can't help but read a poem. From "Gross" and "Flushophobic" to "There's a Sock in the Toilet," these poems will have kids laughing all the way to "The Bathroom Dance!"
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
July 1st 2011
by Albert Whitman & Company
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With elementary kids in mind, this collection of 41 original poems celebrates the joy of the bathroom where so many important things happen. Of course, bathroom humor appropriately abounds in some of the titles; for instance, "Stuck in his Shoe" describes the humilitiation of leaving the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe, to the amusement of classmates. There are poems that make fun of all the euphemisms we have for going to the bathroom, poems that describe how some kids just go the...more
Any Kalli Dakos collection of poems will strike to the funny bone of elementary school kids and teachers. This one maintains a focus on the role of "the lavatory" in school life, much of which is wry, silly, or quirky. Dakos always manages to dig a little deeper to include those other moments, too, when the bathroom provides a place of refuge and recovery from one of the many personal disasters, real and imagined, that kids endure.
A school bathroom is more than a place for bodily functions. It is a place for privacy, for hanging out, and for hiding. Kalli Dakos delivers another nice poetry collection about school life, this time with the school bathroom as its focus. I thought some poems were better than others, but several reminded me of my own students and their school bathroom exploits.
Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for this book. Some of the poems were fun, and some I had trouble getting through. I realize this is meant for kids, but I got tired of seeing the word bathroom on just about every page. I could see kids enjoying that though.
I'm pretty sure poems about the bathroom will be popular with my fourth graders!
Fun topic, but some poems are a stretch, others are very honest
A nice addition to an elementary library or classroom.
Anything in the bathroom is funny, right? Maybe I should copy some of the poems and put them in the bathroom stalls at school. Especially the puzzle ones!
Apr 08, 2013
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Recommended to Tracey by:
Children's Choice Book Award 2012 Finalist
Nov 09, 2011
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