Kalli Dakos (born June 16, 1950) is a Canadian children's poet and teacher. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Queen's University, earning BAH and BEd degrees. Bibliography 1995:If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School 1997:Get Out of the Alphabet Number 2: Wacky Wednesday Puzzle Poems 1996:The Goof Who Invented Homework and Other School Poems 1998:Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School 1999:Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll 2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets) 2002:The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems 2004:Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (with Alice Desmarteau) 2006:Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems 2010:"I Heard You Twice the First Time" 2011:"A Funeral in The Bathroom" References 1950 births Living people Canadian women children's writers Canadian women poets Writers from Ottawa 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers