humorous poetry

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humorous poetry

Cuentos en verso para ni?os perversos

Humorous retellings in Spanish verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

Beastly boys and ghastly girls

1980
A collection of humorous poetry about naughty, ill-mannered, even cruel, boys and girls.

Junior Kroll

1993
Humorous poems depict various events in a lively young boy's life, including taking his baby cousin for a walk, disrupting a garden club meeting, and making an unusual birthday cake for his grandfather.

Sometimes I wonder if poodles like noodles

An illustrated collection of humorous verses about a childs day-to-day experience and other topics.
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A light in the attic

A collection of poems and drawings by American poet and humorist, Shel Silverstein including "Backward Bill, " "Day After Halloween, " "Gumeye Ball, " "Nailbiter, " "Sour Face Ann, " and many others.
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Sometimes I wonder if poodles like noodles

An illustrated collection of humorous verses about a child's day-to-day experiences and other topics.
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The wonder book

Stories, short poems, lists, palindromes, visual treats, and random observations with some parts being happy, some sad-ish, some silly, some serious, some crunchy, and some with a soft center.
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Forgive me, I meant to do it

false apology poems
Inspired by William Carlos Williams' famous poem "This Is Just to Say," Gail Carson Levine delivers a wickedly funny collection of her own false apology poems, imagining how tricksters really feel about the mischief they make.
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Zigzag

Presents a collection of fun poems written and illustrated especially for kindergartners.
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Rolling in the aisles

a collection of laugh-out-loud poems
Presents an anthology of funny poems, selected for inclusion by school children and their teachers; grouped in twelve categories, including relatives, friends, pets, school, and holidays.

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