Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000.
Hardcover edition, 32 pages, ISBN 1-4046-4732-5.
A hilarious collection of six-line poems featuring a succession of strange characters in even stranger predicaments. Each offering ends with an ironic slapstick twist echoed or explained by the boldly humorous illustrations, as in the following with a woman pictured seated in a rowboat in the middle of a desert.
The Woman in Town
"There's a woman in town
Who's afraid that she'll drown
If ever her nose should get wet.
So she wears on her snoot
A small scuba suit.
And it works--she hasn't drowned yet."
Easy to memorize individually for use as a quick filler during a program, or in selected groups.
The rhyming text promotes phonological awareness, while vocabulary is strengthened with some less familiar words understood in context.
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