Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll : And Other School Poems - Hardcover

Dakos, Kalli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027255832 ISBN 13: 9780027255836

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

A full-color collection of school-inspired poems celebrates children's wacky sense of fun and a love of reading and writing. By the author of Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do.

About this title

About the Author:

Kalli Dakos is an elementary school reading specialist who has written many books, including Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi, and two illustrated by G. Brian Karas: Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School and the Children's Choice Award-winning book If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School. Kalli visits schools all over the United States and Canada to talk to students. She also gives teacher workshops. She lives in Ottowa, Canada ,and Sterling, Virginia. You can learn more about Kalli at www.kallidakos.com.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4?In Dakos's third book of poems about school (If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand [1990]; Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! [1993, both Four Winds]), the selections concern day-to-day happenings in the classroom, the cafeteria, and on the playground, as well as interactions among students and teachers. Unfortunately, the promise of a catchy title and cover illustration is not fulfilled by the 32 verses within. Their quality is average at best?some rhymes are forced, some are awkward to read aloud, and some of the attempts at merriment are so contrived that the response is more likely to be a groan than a giggle. The text is often superimposed on the full-color illustrations. The pictures are not as effective in extending the humor as the black-and-white cartoons by Brian Karas in the earlier volumes. If Dakos's other titles are popular, you'll want this one, too. However, Dorothy Kennedy's I Thought I'd Take My Rat to School (Little, 1993) is a better choice.?Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0027255832
• ISBN 13: 9780027255836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Adinolfi Joann