If You Were a Chocolate Mustache

If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Wordsong
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 159078927X

A collection of poems about animals, school, wacky inventions, foods, and computers.

If You Were a Chocolate Mustache

If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684377056

In this tasty collection, J. Patrick Lewis displays the breadth and depth of his talent, giving readers of any and every sensibility something to make them laugh out loud. He stirs humor into an astonishing array of subjects—from animals to school to dragons to food. And he delivers them in a remarkable variety of forms, including riddles, limericks, nonsense rhymes, parodies, anagrams, story poems, haiku, and more. Baked in Lewis's brilliant imagination and sprinkled with Matthew Cordell's warm, witty drawings, the result is a collection to delight the taste buds.

Keep a Pocket in Your Poem

Keep a Pocket in Your Poem
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1590789210

Thirteen classic poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and David McCord are paired with parodies that honor and play off of the original poems in a range of ways. For example, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is paired with "Stopping by Fridge on a Hungry Evening" to hilarious effect, whereas the combination of Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" with Lewis's "'Grief' is the thing with tissues" is profound, and both David McCord's "This Is My Rock" and Lewis's "This Is My Tree" hum with a sense of wonder. This playful introduction to classics will inspire imagination and wonder even as it tickles funny bones.

Most Marshmallows

Most Marshmallows
Author: Rowboat Watkins
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 145216231X

Most marshmallows are born into marshmallow families, play with marshmallow friends, and go to marshmallow school where they learn to be squishy. Most marshmallows read a book before bed and then fall asleep to dream ordinary marshmallow dreams. Is this book about most marshmallows? It isn't. Because Rowboat Watkins knows that just like you, some marshmallows have big dreams, and just like you, these marshmallows can do anything they set their minds to. This sweet and silly book is an inspiring reminder that by being true to ourselves each of us can be truly extraordinary.

Please Bury Me in the Library

Please Bury Me in the Library
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152163877

Warm funny illustrations that make this the perfect treat for any book lover.

Kids' Books and Maker Activities

Kids' Books and Maker Activities
Author: Marge Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440875685

This book connects to the new AASL standards, ISTE Standards for Students, and provides simple directions for using a variety of books to create maker activities that deepen the reading experience. Books and maker activities help children to associate reading with hands-on learning. For educators looking for additional ways to engage youngsters in reading and maker activities, this book provides the perfect hands-on connection. Providing connections to the new AASL standards and the ISTE Standards for Students with simple directions for using a variety of books to create maker activities, this book can help elementary teachers and librarians to enhance and deepen the reading experience. Featured books represent a variety of genres for kindergarten through sixth-grade students and highlights very current titles as well as classics. The book is based on actual experiences with students and staff who have enjoyed and benefited from these activities in their elementary school library. The author's forty years of educational experience ensure the reliability and practicality of this resource that readers can trust and use every day.

Your Nursery Is an Everywhere

Your Nursery Is an Everywhere
Author: Carol Bullman
Publisher: Blue Whale Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781950169412

Having a baby opens up the world in so many ways, but it also closes it off, in the sweetest of ways. "It seems, inside this little room, the walls are fading clear, and all the beauty in the world, is shining on us here." In this beautifully written and illustrated book, a mother and baby savor the coziness of "now" in the nursery while the mother has expansive dreams for her baby's future. The wall fades away, and the magical dreams come alive before readers' eyes!

The Last Chocolate Cookie

The Last Chocolate Cookie
Author: Jamie Rix
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9780606156073

Maurice offers the last chocolate cookie to an alien, with bizarre results.

Dreaming the Actual

Dreaming the Actual
Author: Miriyam Glazer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0791492699

This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women's sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory. In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.

The Chocolate Touch

The Chocolate Touch
Author: Patrick Skene Catling
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062283618

In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate! Kids will eat this up for summer reading or anytime! Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out…. The Chocolate Touch has remained a favorite for millions of kids, teachers, and parents for several generations. It's an enjoyable story that pulls in even reluctant readers.