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FEG: Ridiculous Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children

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Imagine a book that has a whole collection of fun games that ignite a child's love of language. Imagine a child getting excited about homonyms, and even vowels! (as in "Murder most vowel" - a game you'll want to play along with them). Imagine a compendium of playful ways to exercise your childs language skills (and your own, by the way) through the mental calisthenics and verbal acrobatics presented in this highly imaginative book.

This book will excite a child's mind, and thrill your own, as together you travel on an adventure of discovering the power that lies hidden beneath "ordinary" words. This book excites kids -- of ALL ages. If you don't have any kids whom you can read this with, then have no fear; just tell people it's for a "nephew" or "student" and buy the book for yourself.

I myself am all grown up so I have to read it on the sly when I'm not around actual children, but when I do I cant wait to find some more kids to share it with.

Because its pure fun, and you dont have any other book like it yet.

The suggested age on this one is way off. I would say this could be:
entertaining to the young ones.(3-6)
great intro to styles of poetry (7-9)
helpful in writing your own poetry (7-100)

The bottom of each page has great insights, written as if the author was chatting with you;telling you where some of the ideas came from for the poem on that page.
This is a great classroom tool as well as a fun reading book at home.

Amusing and thought provoking. My 12 yo son and I read this together from the library, and he wouldn't take it back! Gramma bought it for him for his birthday. The authors use many different literary styles, and sneak in lots of education. We have memorized many of the selections. This also stimulated us to continue word play and to write some poetry of our own.

We have bought this book several times because we keep lending
it to people and then not getting it back. We got it when my
daughter was 7 and she loved it then and still loves it now that
she's 13. She has the whole thing memorize by now, but she
still likes to read it. They have so much fun with words in
this book. If you like words and poems, you'll love this book.