A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year
Part of the Poetry Collections series
- Subject
- Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)
- Age
- 6-8 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Nosy Crow Inc
- Size
- 25.5 cm × 28.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9798887770253
Winner of Good Housekeeping’s 2023 Best Kids’ Book Awards
Featured in The New York Times’ Holiday Gift Books for Children
Named One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Children’s Books of 2023
Named a Most Anticipated Kids’ Book by Barnes & Noble
A wonderful gift for all ages, this beautiful, rib-tickling anthology is guaranteed to put a smile on your face! Whether it’s a poem about socks or spaniels, eggs or elephants, this bright and brilliant collection will bring you cheer and laughter every day. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing even more side-splitting hilarity with family and friends.
The spectacular range of poems for children includes work by John Agard, Maya Angelou, Brian Bilston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Wendy Cope, Nikki Grimes, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Linda Sue Park, Michael Rosen, Judith Viorst, William Carlos Williams, Jane Yolen, Benjamin Zephaniah, and many more!
With a ribbon marker and poems about everything from animals, holidays, and food, to friendship, family, and feelings, A Whale of a Time is the perfect gift for any occasion.
“Oh, the lucky child who hears a poem a day read aloud from this big book of joy.”
—The New York Times
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What reviewers said
Short poems for each day of the calendar year, including February 29.
Aside from the decision to include some poems in dialect, the pseudonymous editor sticks to standard English in this hefty, lighthearted collection, including for the rare translations. Her 366 selections offer readers encounters with Jellicle Cats and Jumblies, limericks and nursery rhyme spinoffs ("Mary had a little lamb, / A lobster and some prunes"), and renowned versifiers from Jack Prelutsky ("It's raining pigs and noodles, / it's pouring frogs and hats") to the ever-popular Anonymous, who checks in with "There Was an…
Readable and unusually capacious. (poet, title, and first line indexes) (Poetry. 6-10)
Oh, the lucky child who hears a poem a day read aloud from this big book of joy. The idea is simple: a collection of 366 funny verses (mostly rhyming, all short) for every day from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 in a leap year. The topics are relatable: socks, secrets, brothers, bath time, worms, holidays, annoying parents. The poets include plenty of expected names (Roald Dahl, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Jack Prelutsky) and many less well-known talents, like the British dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who gets the prized Dec. 25 slot with a poem about turkeys ("Turkeys jus wanna play reggae/Turkeys jus wanna…
PreS-Gr 5-A balanced collection of poetry punctuated with vibrant mixed media art, this oversized selection reflects seasonal changes, as each section is collected by month for daily readings. Layouts showcase diverse, bold illustrations created by paint, pens, crayons, and digital. Hunt's artistic interpretation of poetry, paired with Peacock's selections per spread, offer an imaginative and brilliant twist to the limericks, haiku, free verse, odes, and other rhymes. A deliciously disgusting image of a cheerful lad slurping worms while surrounded by birds on wet grass takes center stage…
—Rachel Zuffa, School Library Journal
Oh, the lucky child who hears a poem a day read aloud from this big book of joy.
