Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
Lexile Score: NP

Best Sellers Rank:
#185 in Children's Humorous Poetry
#4,864 in Children's Beginner Readers
#11,920 in Children's Humor

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After reading this book, I had mixed feelings about it. I liked that the illustrations in the book go along with the poems that are on each page, which helped to tell what was going on in each poem. For example, if the poem is talking about a fishing and all the different types of sea animals that he could catch, they were in the picture. I also liked there was only one boy that was depicted throughout the entire book which helped to have a sense of unity and tie it all together. One thing that I did not like was that most of the poems in the book had end rhyme for each line. I wish that they all did not rhyme to show children that not all poems have to rhyme and to show different styles of poetry. The poems are simple poems that express much detail, which is filled in by the illustrations. This collection of poems follows a boy, his life and problems and some of the people that are in his life. ( )

Comedian Jeff Foxworthy presents sixteen poems for children on such topics as friends, bugs, family members, and pretending in this easy-reader edition.