Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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School children lcdgt |
Note |
Includes index. |
Summary |
Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers. |
Contents |
Ah! A monster's lot is merry -- Alley cat with one life left -- Alligators are unfriendly -- Archie B McCall -- Ballad of a boneless chicken -- Baloney Belly Billy -- Be glad your nose is on your face -- Bleezer's ice cream -- Bloders are exploding -- Boing! Boing! Squeak! -- Bulgy bunne -- Carpenter rages -- Cave beast greets a visitor -- Cherries' garden gala -- Clara Cleech -- Come see the thing -- Cow's outside -- Cuckoo! -- Dainty Dottie Dee -- Dauntless dimble -- Diatonic dittymunch -- Do oysters sneeze? -- Dora Diller -- Drumpp the grump -- Eggs! -- Euphonica jarre -- Flimsy fleek -- Floradora Doe -- Flotz -- Forty performing bananas -- Granny Grizer -- Griselda Gratz -- Gussie's greasy spoon -- Happy birthday, dear dragon -- Henrietta Snetter -- Homework! Oh, homework! -- I am falling off a mountain -- I am flying! -- I am running in a circle -- I do not like the rat! -- I found a four-leaf clover -- I spied my shadow slinking -- I toss them to my elephant -- I wonder why Dad is so thoroughly mad -- I'd never dine on dinosaurs -- I'd never eat a beet -- I'm bold, I'm brave -- I'm disgusted with my brother -- I'm in a rotten mood! -- I'm thankful -- I'm the single most wonderful person I know -- Irritating creature -- Its fangs were red -- I've got an incredible headache -- I've got an itch -- Jellyfish stew -- Lavinia Nink -- Louder that a clap of thunder -- Ma! Don't throw that shirt out -- Mabel, remarkable Mabel -- Mean Maxine -- Michael built a bicycle -- Microscopic topic -- Miraculous Mortimer -- Mungle and the munn -- My baby brother -- My brother's head should be replaced -- My dog, he is an ugly dog -- My mother says I'm sickening -- My sister is a sissy -- Neighbors are not fond of me -- Never mince words with a shark -- New kid on the block -- New York is in North Carolina -- Nine mice -- No, I won't turn orange! -- Nothing-doings -- Oh, teddy bear -- Ounce and bounce -- Seymour Snorkke -- Sidney Snickke -- Sir Blushington Bloone -- Sneaky Sue -- Snillies -- Something silky -- Song of the gloopy gloppers -- Stringbean small -- Super-goopy glue -- Suzanna socked me Sunday -- There is a thing -- Throckmorton Thratte -- Today is a day to crow about -- Today is very boring -- Unassuming owl -- Uncanny Colleen -- Underwater wibbles -- We each wore half a horse -- We heard Wally wail -- What nerve you've got, Minerva Mott! -- When Dracula went to the blood bank -- When Tillie ate the chili -- When young, the slyne -- Wolf is at the laundromat -- You need to have an iron rear -- Yubbazubbies -- Zany Zapper Zockke -- Zoosher. |
Credits |
Product designer, Mark Schlichting ; drawings by James Stevenson. |
Awards |
Bluebonnet award, 1985-1986. |
Subject |
Children's poetry, American.
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Humorous poetry.
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American poetry.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Poetry -- Humorous.
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American poetry.
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Children's poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst00856347
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Genre/Form |
Echo verse. (OCoLC)fst01921639
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Humorous poetry. (OCoLC)fst01726647
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Humorous poetry.
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Echo verse.
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Humorous poetry.
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Added Author |
Stevenson, James, 1929-2017, illustrator.
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Greenwillow Books, publisher.
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ISBN |
0688022715 |
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9780688022716 |
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0688022723 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780688022723 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780329546670 |
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0329546678 |
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0062239503 (pbk. ; 2013) |
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9780062239501 (pbk. ; 2013) |
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9780590408363 |
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0590408364 |
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0329044532 |
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9780329044534 |
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