Ode to a Commode

Ode to a Commode
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 146774767X

Is that a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a poem! Concrete poems are shaped like their subjects. They can look like objects, animals, or even people. You won't find many straight lines here! Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how concrete poems work—and uses them to create all sorts of wild wordplay. Ode to a Commode is packed with mind-bending poems to make you puzzle and ponder. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own concrete poems!

Flush

Flush
Author: Charlie Williams
Publisher: Charlie Williams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Humorous stories
ISBN: 9780977287000

A boy takes a rhyming rest room tour, showing the sounds of a variety of toilets.

Bow-Tie Pasta

Bow-Tie Pasta
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467788511

Acrostic? What kind of stick is that? Actually, it's a poem! Acrostic poems are created from a word or phrase written vertically down the page. Each letter becomes part of a line in the poem, revealing a thought or a clue about the poem's topic. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary shows how even the wackiest words can make an acrostic poem. Bow-Tie Pasta is packed with acrostics to make you snicker and snort. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own poems!

How to Eat a Poem

How to Eat a Poem
Author: American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486110958

Seventy lighthearted, much-loved poems cover everything from books and imagination to friendship and the beauty of the natural world. Includes such notable poets as Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, and Marianne Moore.

Crossing Pleasure Avenue

Crossing Pleasure Avenue
Author: Karen Hildebrand
Publisher: Indolent Books
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2018-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945023132

These terse lyrics engage the reader with humor, brio, and bite. In these wildly imaginative poems, Karen Hildebrand reminds us of the strangeness of the everyday and the pleasure in those ripe moments when past and present buckle and overlap. Funny, fervent, and fierce, Crossing Pleasure Avenue is also delightfully profound.

Something Sure Smells Around Here

Something Sure Smells Around Here
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467777722

What do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? A limerick! These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work—and shows how these little poems can trigger big laughs. Something Sure Smells Around Here is packed with hilarious poems to make you chuckle and chortle. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own limericks!

Underneath My Bed

Underneath My Bed
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512411124

When is a list also a poem? When it's a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written. Underneath My Bed is packed with goofy poems on subjects ranging from summer camp to dinosaurs to messy bedrooms. And when you've finished reading, you can try writing your very own list poem!

If It Rains Pancakes

If It Rains Pancakes
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467750093

What is a haiku? It sounds like a sneeze. And isn't a lantern a light source? Actually, they are two types of ancient Japanese poetry. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how each form works—and shows how these little poems can contain big surprises! If It Rains Pancakes is packed with poems to make you chuckle, puzzle, and ponder. And when you’ve finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own haiku and lanterns!

Write Your Own Poems

Write Your Own Poems
Author: Jerome Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781805071907

Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips and inspiration for writing all kinds of poems - and inventing brand new styles too. With links to websites where you can listen to many of the poems in this book, and find more helpful writing tips.

Flush!

Flush!
Author: Ingrid Wenz-Gahler
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Built for comfort: unconventional solutions in toilet room design today. Avant-garde designed toilets are calling cards for restaurants, clubs and business companies a?? a manifestation of corporate culture and expression of respect towards customers and employees. Todaya??s toilets are no longer nondescript, uninviting places. They are restrooms, somewhere to relax; they facilitate communication and possess event character. Flush! is a book for interior architects and designers, sanitary consultancies, club-owners, restaurateurs and people in the catering business, and design enthusiasts with more than a mere passing interest in concepts for comfort when nature calls.