A fun way to find out about different jobs that exist around us . The book introduces around fifty different jobs and discusses their responsibilities and what they do. The jobs listed in the book include pastry chef, mapmaker, garbage collector, ice sculptor, acrobat, auto mechanic, plumber, banana picker, sunken treasure hunter, birdwatcher and more. ( )

This book is a collection of poems about different jobs people can have. Some are common like an auto mechanic others are very rare or even made up like a baby chick inspector.

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This book is just overall fun! The illustration is fun and fulls of doodle that add humor to the poetry. This would be a great book to introduce poetry and getting children to write their own poetry on whatever subjects they deemed fit.

J. Patrick Lewis's "The Underwear Salesman" is a collection of silly poems about different jobs. The poems rhyme and many make kids laugh out loud. The illustrations that go along are mixed media with pencil drawing, real objects, water colors and collage.
Many of these poems would be funny for young children. Many would need some explaining either about vocabulary in the poem or about the job itself. For example, many students would not know enough about the queen of England to understand the poem about her. This could be used to add humor to a unit on what students want to be when they grow up. Another way to do use this book would be to have students make up silly rhyming poems about classroom jobs and illustrate them similar to Lewis's work.