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My Foot Fell Asleep

Website exclusive! Kenn Nesbitt's first collection of funny poetry for kids, My Foot Fell Asleep, is back in print for the first time in five years, and is available exclusively from poetry4kids.com.

Get ready to laugh as you discover the wonderfully zany poetry of Kenn Nesbitt! You'll read about the world's fastest bicycle and meanest pirate ever. You'll meet a marching band of musical ants, and a dragon who can't blow out his birthday candles. You'll learn how not to play with your food, and why you can't bring a camel to school. Children and adults alike will want to read these poems again and again.

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Revenge of the Lunch Ladies

Following the success of When the Teacher Isn't Looking, Kenn Nesbitt delivers another funny school poetry collection. Revenge of the Lunch Ladies is packed with over 45 silly poems and songs, which cover topics such as a principal who skipped school for the day, a science project that ate the student's dog, how lunch ladies get back at kids who complain about cafeteria food, the sad saga of a kid who forgot to tie his shoelaces, and how teachers celebrate on the last day of school.

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Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney

This book contains 20 funny poems full of Christmas cheer by Linda Knaus and Kenn Nesbitt. Knaus and Nesbitt's poems capture all the things that could go wrong during the Christmas season-including the hunt for a parking spot at the mall on the Friday after Thanksgiving, Santa getting stuck in the chimney, writing a list of the presents Santa forgot to bring (better luck next year), and all the foods at Christmas dinner (how wise you were to pass up the Brussels sprouts).

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When the Teacher Isn't Looking

When the Teacher Isn't Looking and Other Funny School Poems is a collection of over 45 hilarious poems about school by Kenn Nesbitt, author of The Aliens Have Landed! Topics range from food fights and cafeteria lunch to falling asleep in class and turning in the wrong homework In the tradition of No More Homework! No More Tests! and If Kids Ruled the School, this paperback collection is lavishly illustrated by Mike Gordon and edited by Bruce Lansky, author of My Dog Ate My Homework and If Pigs Could Fly and Other Deep Thoughts.

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The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!

If aliens ever visit Earth, they'll definitely want to take this book home with them. No other souvenir will do after they've seen the world through Kenn Nesbitt's eyes -- a world full of mashed potatoes on the ceiling, kangaruplets, skunks in love, antigravity machines, and a jillion other imaginative subjects. No matter what planet you live on, you'll want this book, too... it's packed with far-out, funny, clever poems guaranteed to give you a galactic case of the giggles!

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I Hope I Don't Strike Out!

I Hope I Don't Strike Out is the first major anthology of funny poems about sports. Kids will love poems about how to trick batters into taking their eyes off the ball, what to expect on your first day of karate school, what not to pack for a ski trip, and how to score the winning goal in a peewee soccer game. In all, these are twenty-two of the funniest sports poems ever published, and they're sure to have both bench-warmers and starters laughing.

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I've Been Burping in the Classroom

I've Been Burping in the Classroom contains funny new songs about school written to familiar tunes, so they're easy and fun to sing for students and teachers. Songs include "I've Been Burping in the Classroom" to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Angelica the Beautiful" to the tune of "America the Beautiful," "The Halls Were Decked with Toilet Paper" to the tune of "Deck the Halls," and "Marching Out of School" to the tune of the "Sound Off" (The Army Marching Song).

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Peter, Peter, Pizza Eater

Like Mary Had a Little Jam, this book contains 40 silly rhymes that will put a smile on the faces of preschoolers and early-elementary kids. The rhymes (written by Lansky and an ensemble of poets whose work is featured in Mary Had a Little Jam and in Lansky's best-selling poetry anthologies) recount the latest adventures of well-loved Mother Goose characters--but with a humorous twist. Stephen Carpenter's hilarious full-color illustrations, add to the entertainment value of this amusing book.

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My Teacher's in Detention

Get ready to giggle, because here are 50 hilarious poems about messy lockers, mysterious bus drivers, teachers in detention, silly principals, and other wacky tales about school. These side-splitting poems have been tested and approved by more than 1,000 elementary students, and Stephen Carpenter's amusing illustrations will have you in stitches as you turn each page. This book will have kids and teachers hooting and hollering so much, they just might get sent to detention!

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No More Homework! No More Tests!

Wackier than a monster in the school lunch line! Sillier than a teacher with hiccups! Funnier than toilet paper stuck to the bottom of the principal's shoe! Here are the funniest poems about school ever collected in one book, selected by Bruce Lansky, the "King of Giggle Poetry," with the help of thousands of elementary-school children. Read about why there are no more flies in teh school kitchen, what can be found in a student's desk, how to eat a bag lunch, creatures in the classroom, and many more hilarious topics. These poems were written by popular children's poets, including Shel Silverstein, Bruce Lansky, Jack Prelutsky, Colin McNaughton, David L. Harrison, Kalli Dakos, and more than a dozen others who know how to find humor in any school subject. This book puts the cool back in school!

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If Kids Ruled the School

If you've ever tried to convince Mom and Dad that the F on your report card stands for "fabulous," this hilarious collection of school poems is for you! In the tradition of the popular anthology No More Homework! No More Tests!, this book covers wild and wacky school topics, such as bringing skunks to show-and-tell, falling asleep at your desk, and ripping your pants on the playground.

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Rolling in the Aisles

This new collection of funny poems by beloved poets such as Bruce Lansky, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, and Douglas Florian and up-and-comers such as Kenn Nesbitt, Ted Scheu, Robert Pottle, and Dave Crawley will have both kid-size and grownup-size readers rolling in the aisles!

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Miles of Smiles

Thousands of elementary-school students helped Bruce Lansky, "The King of Giggle Poetry," pick the poems by Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Jeff Moss, Colin McNaughton, David Harrison, Bruce Lansky and other popular poets included in this book. And if the poems don't put a smile on your face, Stephen Carpenter's hilarious illustrations surely will.

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A Bad Case of the Giggles

The Giggles Are Gonna Get You! This is the funniest collection of children's poetry since Kids Pick the Funniest Poems. It's the newest collection of poems selected by kids. In this book you'll find the creations of some of the most popular children's poets in the world: Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Judith Viorst, Jeff Moss, and Bruce Lansky. But don't be shocked if some of your favorite poems are by writers you've never heard of.

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Kids Pick the Funniest Poems

Betcha Laugh! This just might be the funniest collection of poetry ever published . . . because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids. In this book, you'll find the creations of some of the most popular children's poets in the world: Dr. Suess, Shel Silverstein, Judith Viorst, Jack Prelutsky, and Jeff Moss. But don't be surprised to find poems that are just as funny by writers you've never heard of.

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Snail's Pace

Snail's Pace is the fourth CD by Eric Herman and the Invisible Band. Snail's Pace is a really cool collection of Eric's more laid back tracks from his previous three albums. But it's not just a compilation CD... There are four completely new tracks, including "Scat Cat," "Nightlight," and Eric's powerful original rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." He has also remixed several of the previously released songs and recorded a new version of his hit, "The Elephant Song," featuring his girls, Becca and Evee. Snail's Pace also includes a bonus track; the funny original version of "Rest Easy Now" called "The Cruelest Lullaby."

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Snow Day!

Snow Day! is the third CD by Eric Herman and the Invisible Band. Eric's most upbeat and fun album yet, Snow Day! has 12 tracks including "Hot Sand," "Dance Like an Animal," "Cowboy Bergaleoukaleopaleous," and "When I Grow Up."

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Monkey Business

Monkey Business is the amazing second CD by Eric Herman and the Invisible Band. The album has 14 original tracks, including new classics like "Blackbeard, Bluebeard and Redbeard", "Ants in the Lunchroom" and "Bounce and Flap and Twist". The Invisible Band never sounded so good! Hilarious, inventive, brilliant and above all a lot of fun, Monkey Business is a real standout album in the children's music genre.

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The Kid in the Mirror

10 Songs by children's songwriter/singer/musician Eric Herman. 5 of the songs on this CD include lyrics by children's poet Kenn Nesbitt.