Yes you can enjoy poetry. Try not to smile at these nonsensical rhymes. It brought out the nearly dead poet in me.
Though the book is small,
The words stand tall.

The book was provided for review by Kirkus, and Redtail Press
The verse is terse,
Though not the worse.
Far better than freeverse. ( )

This was a fun collection of poems. Think Shel Silverstein, geared for middle graders and older. There were a few words I had to look up, so I'm sure younger readers will need to as well. For the most part they're fun poems, with illustrations to match. They're a bit offbeat, which I think will appeal to younger readers. Adults who enjoyed offbeat reads when they were kids will likely find they're still kids at heart when reading this. I'll definitely be recommending this to my friends with kids who are the right ages! ( )

Silly funny poems for sharing with primary school students. A fish wants to be eaten by the king. A neighborhood kid advertises mudshakes with hollandaise, guaranteed to give you the flu. A prince learns just in time that slaying the beast that he was told killed his father would be a mistake. A Jabberwock doesn't need killing, either. A character with many unlikely problems (the faucet runs lukewarm gasoline) answers the greeting "How are you?" with "Fine, thank you." And more. The poems would be funny without illustrations that manage to satisfy both my taste for baroque drawings and my taste for cartoons, but each poem gets at least one such illustration. The quality of the poems is uneven but this is a very funny book. ( )