There's No Place Like School: Classroom Poems [Hardcover]

Jack Prelutsky (Author), Jane Manning (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 2010 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

A day at school is:
a. marvelous
b. dreadful
c. silly
d. all of the above—and much, much more!

From suspicious hot lunches (yuck!), to pop quizzes (oh, no!), to recess and best friends (hooray!), everything you love—and love to hate—about school is front and center in this collection of eighteen poems by thirteen celebrated poets. One thing's for certain: there's no place like school!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3 This collection of 18 short and funny poems by 13 different writers covers topics like riding the bus (Sixteen boys /fourteen girls /Thirty pairs of sleepy eyes) to the struggles of learning cursive (Who decides?/Who gets to choose?/Who dreams up these curlicues?), all dear to the hearts of their intended audience. Prelutsky's Grasshopper Gumbo lists the offerings in the school cafeteria: Grasshopper Gumbo/Iguana Tail Tarts/Toad À La Mode/Pickled Pelican Parts.... Manning's watercolors add colorful splashes of humor her round-faced children are comical and cute. While this book has a lot in its favor, it's unfortunately an addition to an already crowded field of light verse about school. Libraries that have Carol Diggory Shields's Lunch Money (Dutton, 1995) or Prelutsky's What a Day It Was at School! (HarperCollins, 2006) might want to consider this title as a fun but nonessential purchase. Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
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From Booklist

Prelutsky follows What a Day It Was at School (2006) with another picture-book collection of poems that range from the classroom to the cafeteria to the playground. Contributed by well-known poets, including Carol Diggory Shields and Lee Bennett Hopkins, the mostly rhyming, lighthearted selections hit familiar targets, such as school lunch (“toad à la mode”), the anxiety of being called on in class, and mortifications like getting a noseful of water at the drinking fountain. The energetic, fruit-juice-hued watercolor scenes hum with cheerful energy and subversive humor and, like the poems, capture the chaotic intensity and fun of a typical school day. Grades K-3. --Gillian Engberg

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books (June 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060823380
• ISBN-13: 978-0060823382
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #872,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars School + Prelutsky = Fun, September 18, 2011

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This review is from: There's No Place Like School: Classroom Poems (Hardcover)

Prelutsky takes the most ordinary aspects of school and turns them into laughter. This is very approachable poetry for children and adults to share. The illustrations bring an added measure of fun.