Frank Carlson Library

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

A collection of humorous poems such as "The Dancing Hippopotami," "You Can't Make Me Eat That, " "My Father's Name is Sasquatch, " and "Dear Wumbledeedumble."

"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--

A collection of short poems with such titles as "Popcorn," "Driftwood," and "My new bird book."

A collection of humorous poetry on a variety of topics. Here is another wondrously rich, varied, clever - and always funny - collection. Meet Miss Misinformation, Swami Gourami, and Gladiola Gloppe (and her Soup Shoppe), and delight in a backwards poem, a poem that ever ends, and scores of others that will be changed, read, and loved by readers of every age. The Prelutsky-Stevenson duo is irresistible. Whether you begin at the beginning or just open...

A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

A collection of poems each of which appears on the page in the shape of its subject so that the poem looks like whatever it's about.

"Hailing from the Trem ̌neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest."

A collection of poems, including "Secrets," "When You Come to a Corner," "Mad," and "Come With Me."