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Title: Zany fun
Review: Certain kids may not be interested in poetry, until along comes something like this book with marvelous kid appeal to draw them in. This collection features many of X.J. Kennedy's kid classics, plus some new ones, and lively, active drawings. Airtight, singsong rhyme and meter combines with absurdist wit to come up with gems like "Mother's Nerves": "My mother said, 'If just once more - I hear you slam that old screen door, - I'll tear out my hair! I'll dive in the stove!' - So I gave it a bang, and in she dove." Many kids have a natural silliness that such extremes will appeal to, and poems like "One Winter Night in August" are excellent introductions to so-called nonsense... "Exploding Gravy" will be lapped up.
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