Biblio Files: talking about books

The Goof Who Invented Homework
and Other School Poems
by Kalli Dakos
illustrated by Denuse BlunkusThe first poem is what the school supplies and classroom features(including the gum under a desk) think about starting a new school year. The rest of the book is about that schoolyear, mostly about that classroom. The title poem is a conversation between the students in which they exchange interesting but false tidbits.. for example, they decide that George Washington must be the Father of The Lightbulb. And one third and one third equal a whole pizza. A number of the poems are stories- how the goldfish died, or how Jason drives his teacher bonk bonk BONKERS. But most of the stories are explanations of how a character is feeling, feeling that we can mostly sympathise with.
Happy reading.