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Get out of the Alphabet Number 2:
and other Wacky Wednesday Poems
Kalli Dakos, Jenny Graham (Illustrator)
Format: Hardcover, 32pp.
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Click on the book cover to see sample poem
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Synopsis
It's Wacky Wednesday! And that means kids can wear their underwear
outside their pants...their teacher can put on a hula skirt with cowboy boots...and
letters and numbers can go wild! What's that number 2 doing in the alphabet? Is that an upside down P or a right-side-up d! The l wants a perm so it can
look like the S,
and number 9
won't stay in line! Welcome to the classroom - and a book - where poems become puzzles and pictures offer clues and young readers
just learning about letters and numbers are invited to join the action! In full color.
Reviews and Commentary
A triangle yearns to be in the alphabet. After all, it does
resemble the letter A. Letters take the place of numbers on the clock. Why not? It's Wacky
Wednesday when anything goes, even wearing a purple hat with jingle bells or underwear
over pants. Poems and puzzles of letters and numbers to tickle and teach kids fill this
colorfully illustrated book.
(From Carolyn Mott Ford - Children's Literature)
The book is really about the alphabet. Each of the poems in "Get
Out of the Alphabet Number 2: Wacky Wednesday Puzzle Poems" by Kalli
Dakos, illus. by Jenny Graham, has a "wacky" part for readers to figure out, for
example: "First in the alphabet,/ Best mark in school,/ Sometimes the rest of us,/
Wish we were you." Animated, cheerfully naive illustrations, in bright gouache
heavily outlined in black, add to the merriment with jumbles and cascades of figures.
(Publishers Weekly)
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